Analysis of heresy
tiffany the regal
larva monarch heir by blood
to royalty with brightly colored
future unstuck to ground to branches
caterpillar deluxe
crosses paths with steffie the noble
larva queen heir by blood to regal airs
tiffany tips imaginary crown held
in place by antennae and speaks lofty
evocations to forthwith transpire
of her heavenly flutterings above
the peasants of the earth of the
gossamer beauty of her robed wings
of peasant humans stopping
to notice to worship her
obtrusive magnificence
of poets divining her flutterways
steffie the noble queen larva is
uplifted by the message of
larva transcendent glory she
can almost see brighter
flutterings ahead
there is a lilt in her little
caterpillar gallop as she
leaves praising tiffany the
regal always such a positive
soul thinks steffie as she
traverses the mindworks of
butterflyhood aspiring to
flighty aboveness when she
spots from a windowsill the
most gruesome horrifying sight it
turns her stomach and all of
tiffany's words of flutteriness and
flitteriness melt in visions of
tragedy thru the window she
clearly sees a glass case displaying
butterflies of all sorts with pins
stuck in them trophies like mooseheads & elk & such
the vision of little butterfly voodoo dolls with pins stuck in their abdomens gives steffie a bellyache steffie vows to never
enter a cocoon of transubstantiation
she will remain a caterpillar
royal larva queen forever she spends
the rest of her life warning unsuspecting caterpillars of the
horror that awaits them on the other
side
and it comes to pass that steffie the
regal's life is crushed in a
garden when kindly old mrs higginbottom accidentally steps
on her as tiffany the royal monarch
flits above shaking her head
pondering all the ways humans
kill butterflies thinks to herself
if only stubborn steffie had listened
to the truth y'know humans stick things in their fellows as well
i am grateful sez tiffany that i am
transubstantiated perhaps humans
are a superior species but at least
butterflies don't run around sticking
sharp objects in each other
tiffany fluttered away continuing
to speak evocatively her
religious nonsense till one fine spring
day she was captured in a
dragnet a pin stuck thru her
by an algebra major and
placed inside a glass case designated
enemy of the state
© John Kennan 4-12-21
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100010 101111 110011010 100111110 10001 101110010 1011111101 1001010011 0110100110 1111010 10100101 01010110 100101011 1101010 1101100 0101 11001001 100101101 10010101 10010101 11110 101 11010010 1001011 1101000 10110100 111011 1011 10101 10111 11010 11010011 1010011 1001110 110101 10010101 101011010 1011111 101101111 0101101011111011110010101110 1000111 11010100 1010101011 011011001010010 1010111010 1 011111100 111100 10110110001001001 1011000101 1011001 10010110 1101101 1101010110 101111011011011 11101100111 10110 10010010111 10110110 1100110 10010010100 1110 010101111 1111000 101110 11100100 101011100 100101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,269 |
Words | 385 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 22, 7, 9, 5, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 69 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 275 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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