Analysis of Blue
Delicate songs roamed through her hair's colour,
soft notes of wild pleasure struck stark hot pain,
tears left memory in new fine lined tracks.
Evening rocked her body through early hours,
all the beautiful times she held closely,
washed away as warm blood met the cold air.
Familiar breath became a stranger
in her midst: mocking life's silent fresh willed -
adventurous first stumbles; what a waste.
Blue skin, victory, absent from childbirth,
sobs wracked her small frame's plea for existence,
removing thoughts of still born painful time.
With casual noise outside she lost life
and dripped herself into the long shadows
where no one really looked to catch her plight.
Scheme | AXX XXA AXX XXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 100111011 1111101111 1110001111 10101011010 1010011110 1011111011 010101010 0011011011 0100110101 111001011 1101111010 0101111101 1100111111 010101011 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on August 14, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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