Analysis of Kaleidescope



Kaleidescope patterns turn ( are turned );
Colours merge, discordant to the eye,
Vibrant jarring colours – my mood is pastel.
I can’t deny a thirst within my soul
For peace.

Time. Time they say paints pastel.
The early hours are joy and pain
But  are also days and then are years
And it’s vain, so vain to think
Of pastel peace.

Love then is passion, anguish;
Love is the fire-red and the empty-black;
Love is the hunger and the banquet,
the beauty and the beast.
It is the desert heat and the arctic ice;
It is the pain and the pain relieved.
Love is the fear, the tear
For what’s been glimpsed and then is lost.
Love has a price for loving,
For wanting to be loved.
It is all this – now here, now gone.
And it is sitting alone,
Now pastel , awaiting it’s return.


Scheme XXAXB AXXXB XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 11010101 1010111101 1101010111 11 1111101 010101101 111010111 0111111 1011 1111010 11010100101 110100010 010001 11010100101 110100101 110101 10110111 1101110 110111 11111111 0111001 101010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 781
Words 168
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 13
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 194
Words per stanza (avg) 50

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Being in love is raucous, but then there comes a time when one longs for peace

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Submitted by j-gordon1 on May 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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