Analysis of Delightful Disease In Blank Verse
A chronic swerve of sweet lies slips towards
the bottle's curves; she's a high percentage
beauty that swings her psychological
profile in eyes that reduce her to drops.
I want to rip her tight head off and drink
from her neck's open, delightful disease,
severity slaps my trembling cheeks,
imagination gasps at the violence.
A wild alcoholic expression darts
from the face as withdrawal symptoms crash
against excessive dreams of consumption,
I impair my social ability,
progressively, and laugh insanity
across delicate organic damage.
Whatever I want I will quickly steal.
Can you spare some change for this man deranged?
Visions of vodka whip wisps of whiskey
into a frenzy of fermentation,
rum and brandy dreams become volatile
while I intoxicate broken language.
Pungent odour rises from cracks in lips,
the hair of the dog barks for attention,
I think of wasted liver and onions
and grin like a fool in morbidity.
Scheme | XABXXXXX XXCDDAXX DCBAXCXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 011101010 101100100 101101011 1111011101 1011001001 0100111001 0010110100 010100101 1011010101 0101011010 1011100100 0100010100 0110001010 101111101 1111111101 1011011110 010101010 1010101100 110101010 101101101 0110111010 1111010010 0110100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 896 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on April 30, 2023
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