Analysis of Mockeries collapse



Violent shards of laughter
Divide the waking pain
Selfish, dormant pleasure
Wrapped in soulless reign
Splintered chords of passion
Beg to be released
Bringing more confusion
To a washed away disease

The higher guards of longing
Immortalize their wings
With an emptiness belonging
And robbed of fallen beings
They veil the sullen challenge
And smooth away the seams
To strand the youth in solace
And wage a war of dreams

Horrid revelations
Crumble to the depths
The force of degradation
Sways on past regrets
The shelters of belief
Own their fading grasp
As fearful currents cease
And mockeries collapse


Scheme ABABCXCX DEDEXFXF XXCXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1001110 010101 101010 10101 101110 11101 101010 1010101 0101110 010011 11100010 0111010 1101010 010101 1101010 010111 10010 10101 011010 11101 010101 11101 110101 0101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 579
Words 99
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 168
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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