Analysis of Downfall Dreaming* ~
There are things
I cannot clearly think of,
let alone speak...
For once,
my silence echoes greater volumes...
In my head,
my crazy world--
Whirlwinds and
Uprooting tornadoes...
In my head,
I hammer the gavel in favor of
right against wrong...
Then dismiss myself to
wrestle with the
Devil at each
repressed recess...
It's inner torture--
Outward editing--
Praying...
Praying...
Praying...
For clarity, guidance and determination
to survive these fits of darkness...
Here is what I am,
and am not...
Here is what I do
and refuse...
Crowned in love's roses and thorns...
Missing her and them and you...
I adorn each day with
theatrical disturbance...
Biting butterfly wings--
Kissing blades that
wound me religiously...
I've weakened in the forefronts of battle,
and now I grow savage in its memory...
I expect so much from my heart...
it expects so much of me!
Why am I tortured so?
In agony,
I delay the burial of my former ways...
In agony,
the guilt of my human, Eve nature
strangles and starves my
clipped-wing
Soul...
Scheme | abxcx Dxxx Dbxexxx fgGGGxx xxex xe xcaxh xhxh xHxHfxgx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1101011 1011 11 110101010 011 1101 10 010010 011 1100100101 1011 10111 1010 1011 0101 11010 10100 10 10 10 11001000010 10111110 11111 011 11111 001 1011001 1000101 101111 0100010 10101 1011 110100 110001110 01111001100 10111111 1011111 111101 0100 101010011101 0100 011110110 1011 11 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 976 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 7, 7, 4, 2, 5, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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