Analysis of Kaleidoscopes



My vision spoke
in black-and-white
siding with one shade
for day and for night

my iris blurred
a cloudy gray
my eyes knew of one language,
to my complete dismay

I saw everything
in the two simple shades
until I met you,

and my soul set ablaze

like an explosion,
it happened so abrupt
this burst of colour,
this endless erupt

of beams and bows
of every shade ever known
my eyes drank it in
eagerly, to the bone

I had wondered for a second
if I could stabilize the rush
of this something so beautiful
at the thought, I would blush

the world, reborn
with us, ever lusting
take it in, no worries

my eyes are adjusting;


Scheme XAXA XBXB CXX X XDBD XEXE XFXF XCX C
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 0101 10111 11011 1101 0101 1111110 110101 1110 001101 01111 011101 11010 110101 1111 11001 1101 11001101 11110 100101 11101010 1111001 11101100 101111 0111 111010 110110 111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 587
Words 118
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 1, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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