Analysis of Common nonsense
Robert Ochiel 2001 (Nairobi)
No longer do his ears hear the chirping of birds,
Sweet sounds of nothing have replaced them.
The unrelenting buzz of the hive will follow.
No longer does his tongue taste memories.
Instant beige sustenance should suffice.
And if not then so be it.
No longer does his nose smell particularly.
Be it a rose or a corpse,
That scent will pass.
No longer do his eyes see the future.
What is seen is what is in front of him,
Not one day forward, not one day back.
How much longer will his hands feel the cold?
The cold of her half of the bed,
The cold of the steel.
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101011 11110111 00101101110 1101111100 101100101 0111111 11011111000 1101101 1111 1101111010 1111110111 111101111 1110111101 01101101 01101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 564 |
| Words | 128 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on May 18, 2020
Submitted by 0chiel on October 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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