Analysis of love, drugs, and other things that escape from sobriety
play us a song, because...
Tonight we are the center.
The center of our universe
Lost in our own minutia.
So much… that
We are supplements for the sun
Dreamers on the run
Beaters of the drum.
The Fire on a candle
Dancing on a table
Looking to each others eyes
Dissolved by the others cries
Call a plug
Fill a mug
Because this is our solum
Together
We escape, we escape
Holes in the wall
Shopping at the mall
Nothing but a close call
No longer the center
No more banter
But pigs in a cage
Consumed by rage
A burning passion,
desire,
Pain
For the forlorn solum
That left them tame
Paint us a portrait, for…
Tonight we are the center
The center of all quiddity
Lost in our propensity
So much… that
We are the maestro’s of our ballad
Croutons of the salad
All others callid
The bottles of the top shelf
Longing to feel ourself
Craving each others eyes
Thrown by our own disguise
Drink
Partake
Because this is our solum
tonight
we escape, we escape
Fond but not in love,
A mourning dove,
Tailored like a glove
no longer the center
Lost
and befalled by winter
Like a bear in a den
Discovered by a heathen
And a count down from ten
Perform us a play, because…
Tonight we are the center
The center of our own world
Lost in our own fancy
So much… that
We are kings of our castle
Jockey’s on saddle
People of facile
Lost to the world
Longing for what we cant afford
Looking for each others eyes
While blinded by our own cries
Pour a glass
Light the fire
Because this is our solum
Together
We are chained, we are chained
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 0111010 01011010 101010100 111 11100101 10101 10101 0101010 101010 1011101 0110101 101 101 01111010 010 101101 1001 10101 101011 110010 1110 11001 0111 01010 010 1 100110 1111 110101 0111010 010111 10100100 111 110111010 11010 1101 0101011 1011001 101101 1110101 1 01 01111010 01 101101 11101 0101 10101 110010 1 01110 101001 0101010 001111 0110101 0111010 01011011 1010110 111 11111010 10110 10110 1101 10111101 1011101 11011011 101 1010 01111010 010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,461 |
Words | 292 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 12, 17, 9, 17 |
Lines Amount | 72 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on February 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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