Analysis of Cool Costume, What Are You Supposed To Be?
Leader: my occipital lobe.
I can see you in the Stark Street secondhand store,
sneaky white cat disguised as a man,
black sneaks and a beer-stained kiss,
the suggestion of our re-conception
replaces my anger.
Wisping away my grudge in the cold November drafts-
I still don't dare to call you back.
Gentle, purring, one sharp green eye,
I gasp and gauze wraps my arms, and my
cold limbs contort into a
well-practiced mummy pose:
proud shapeshifter
beacon and butcher,
You used to love me like a noose,
I once belonged to you.
Dancing on crows toes in hurricanes of smoke and
coffee, vapor-like constellations,
redolent of dangerous dinner dates,
hard-to-hear tarot readings, I saw, cloudy then,
The Prince of Pentacles, or
so sobriety revealed:
Little white cat holding a world of disaster
in his porcelain paws.
Forever is a long and secluded session.
I squint down at once-worshipped vases,
I set up camp in a sea of black fabric,
and I can nearly recall your purr-
but today it sounds like a hungry cannon, preparing to
head a clandestine militia of accusations
pointing me out in a blizzard
of exaggeration.
You’re a small sacred snow cat,
revved up for the hunt-
I saw your costume, and believed it,
smokescreen donned:
a man in Love.
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Metre | 10101001 11110011101 101101101 1100111 00101101010 010110 101110010101 11111111 10101111 110111101 1101010 110101 11 10010 11111101 110111 10111010110 10101010 1001100101 11111011101 01111 1010001 101110011010 011001 010101001010 111111010 11110011110 01110111 101111010100101 100100101010 10110010 10010 1011011 11101 111010011 11 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,256 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 9, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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