Analysis of Thoughts



Caramel shadows stretch
their spindly arms across the land.
The sun plays tricks on the mind,
hiding between trees like a child.
The crying has stopped;
the landscape consumes my pain.
I don't fear anymore.
My hair, strong woven spider webs,
flows freely in the air.
My body, formed of mud, sand, and water, molds accordingly.
This delicate shape waxes and wanes to fit constraints.
My thoughts claw and scream.
They attempt to climb the walls of my mind.
They slip and fall, slicing with sharp talons.
Long, bony fingers scrape across the land,
leaving tears and fragments.
The raked sections form a puzzle, I must decode it.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLCMBNO
Poetic Form
Metre 10011 1110101 0111101 10011101 01011 010111 11101 11110101 110001 110111101010100 1100110011101 11101 1011101111 1101101110 1101010101 101010 0110101011011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 610
Words 108
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 494
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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