Analysis of The Death of the most Pronounceable Word
It is now, in this unwanted advance,
in this honorable game of chess;
that the most pronounceable word
the unopposable decree of checkmate—
of noncompliance—
is the most intimidating announcement.
As the slow crescendo of a mournful piano
hypnotically enforces tone, it was
as normal as turning the volume up,
inoffensive compliments thrown into the conversation;
as ignorable as a pillow moved, laundry swept under the bed.
Paranoia—of course—
had brought such encouragingly unnoticeable
actions to attention, a supernova
of dazzling cannon fire
and the memory of poisonous, scarring hands.
But desperate to feel normal,
to not think the worst because surely—surely-
this time wouldn’t be another burn,
another searing slap.
It was unwanted, unobstructed,
inescapable as his demeanor changed.
Always the same smile; that cannot
express care nor caution,
perfectly assured in its nonverbal
noxious assumptions.
The word i have known
since i was a child, had used daily, now
burns behind two pairs of lips
tracing unnoticed fire down my thighs,
trailing in the sweat from my brow.
The monologue is inescapable,
noisily condemning my
inoffensive wishes, my frozen lips
that cracked with the knowledge I had assumed
would not fail me in the most
dishonorable situations.
Yet here,
there
and now
it lay unused, unnoticed, unobtainingly
frozen in the snow that poured from my clouds
Of relative noviceness and naivete.
It is the unnotable, common
normality
in the death of the most pronounceable word.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPMMQRSTUJMVWXYZXM1 Y2 3 V4 5 XM6 7 J8 C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101001 011000111 10111 010111 1010 1010100010 1010101010010 1010111 1101100101 00101001010010 11101011011001 01011 11111 1010100010 11001010 001001100101 1101110 11101011010 11110101 010101 11010010 0100110101 1011110 011110 1000101010 10010 01111 1110111101 1011111 1001010111 10001111 01010100 1000101 0010101101 1110101101 1111001 01000010 11 1 01 11010101 1000111111 110010001 110110 100 00110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,522 |
Words | 262 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 237 |
About this poem
As someone who has constant experience with my consent being violated, I wanted to write a poem about the word No without actually being able to say it, as I often find myself doing in real life. Almost every line has the word No in it hidden inside another word, it wont let me bold them as i did in my docs.
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Written on April 26, 2022
Submitted by emmalynnerard on April 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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