Analysis of Communication Behaviors
Communication Behaviors
By Xiaoyuan Yin
Stained with walnut and saffron oil, the skeleton of his life is now pegged
Out on the line. The curly fringe was taken off, half rack of ribs removed,
And thumbtack holes exposed, which seem rusty against the dim twilight.
Balsam firs burning in the autumn winds – symbols of the deceased;
Howling gibbons and running wolves --the advanced;
Frills cracking and falling from the sun --the decrepit;
Coal particles shedding from the golden clouds --the deranged…
Code segments are long and usually in a broken line, that turn into laminar flow
In the labyrinth of the ear.
The telegraph keeps clicking, while nobody is sitting around.
The iridescent plumage of the season has been ruffled up, so the sorcerer dances, murmuring incantations,
With plumes on his knees and the back of his hands.
-- Turn the corner and you would see a new spring coming
There is a cheetah, who has ambled along the front of night, and picked up the setting sun from among the tumbleweeds.
There is energy lingering here, still powerful enough to hurt,
Using a mysterious lip language
Of dying fish.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010010 111 11101010100111111 110101011101111101 01101111001011 1011000101101001 10100101001 1100101010010 11001010101001 11011010000010111011001 0010101 0101101111001 00101010101110110100101001 11111001111 1010011101110 110101110010111011010110101 11100100111000111 1000100110 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,109 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 4, 3, 7 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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