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
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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Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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