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 |
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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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