Analysis of Houses
If i lived in a house blended with ripened banana,
clusters of the fresh green fruit extruding in abundance from the roof,
i wouldn't have to cook my meal; surviving handsomely on slices of sugary white pulp.
if i resided in a house made of invincible steel bereft of corrugations,
and the beds being of molten iron curry,
i would seldom fall into bouts of sleep; roaming around wildly in sheer insomnia.
if i dwelt in a house impregnated with fearsome alligator skin,
bold premonitions of the monster encroaching would nictitate in my mind,
prompting me to sweat even in the freezing winter night.
if i occupied a house painted with cow dung plaster,
with fresh cakes of goat manure adhered to the floor,
the preposterous stench would suffocate me to unwarranted death.
if i slept in a house made of articulate time pieces,
the needle hands ticking in obstreperous unison,
i would continue to inhabit this earth with a niggling consciousness of evanescent time.
if i occupied a house with symmetrical holes in the roof,
with barren spaces impersonating clerestory windows,
water would cascade down torrentially in the monsoon,
transforming my abode into a sea of fresh liquid.
if i established my entity in a house juxtaposed with slabs of yellow gold,
also an incessant cascade of sparkling silver from the tall roof,
i would be sure of wasting the remainder of my life counting the affluence i possessed.
and if by chance i procured a house in sacrosanct realms of heaven,
with fairy god mothers flying around,
the philanthropic personality of almighty ready to converse with me all day,
i would consider myself as someone blessed with the most cherishable house of all.
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Metre | 11100110110010 10101110100010101 11011111010100110110011 1101000111010010111 001101101010 1110101111100110010100 1110010101101001 10010101001011011 10111100010101 1110011011110 111110101101 0010011101101001 11100111010110 01011000100100 1101010101110110010101 111001101001001 110100100110 10101110001 01010101011110 11010110000101111101 10101001110101011 11111100010111100100101 01111010101001110 1101101001 001001001010101101111 1101011111011111 |
Characters | 1,667 |
Words | 285 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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