Analysis of Drawing Blinds



I met this three-eyed lady once
Two of them are out of place
The third is where her cheek should be
She has an artist's face
I asked her what her name was
She never answered me
Her voice in ashes left amidst
The rubble of her memories

She never paints self-portraits
She don't wanna reflect
The images are difficult
A house of mirrors in a wreck
She never leaves the lights on
When she stares into you
That third eye in the darkness
As blind as are the other two

Visions may overtake themselves
Darkness betrays itself at night
Shall we draw blinds with lights on
These visions in the dark tonight?

I suppose the effort futile
In the darkness where we lie
Where light exposes mirrors
We can't see eye to eye
Three-legged midgets tap-dance
Morse Code to hearing-impaired
Interpreters in braille sign
So the blind won't see what isn't there

Silences illumine mirrors
Leave no shadows on our walls
A kitten with the lights out softly
Silent down a darkened hall
I'm peeking through your keyhole
Looking for anything but night
Just a three-eyed blind cartoonist
Alone with visions in the light

Visions may overtake themselves
Darkness betrays itself at night
Shall we draw blinds with lights on
These visions in the dark tonight?

© John Kennan 1-1-20


Scheme xabaxbxx xxxxcdxd EFCF xghgxxxx hxbxxfxf EFCF x
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 1111111 01110111 111101 1101011 110101 01010101 01010100 1101110 111001 01001100 01110001 1101011 111011 1110010 11110101 1011001 10010111 1111111 11000101 10101010 0010111 1101010 111111 1101011 1111001 0100011 101111101 100110 1111101 010101110 1010101 110111 1011011 10111010 01110001 1011001 10010111 1111111 11000101 110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,208
Words 221
Sentences 3
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 4, 8, 8, 4, 1
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by rankstranger7 on May 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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