Analysis of Paint
Kaleb Barkman 1999
Will you be disappointed in me.
When you find a body in the backseat
of the red mirage
with blacked out windows.
The one I park in the garage
of blank two faced shadows.
But that’s too much information
about this two-car car park.
Because it makes me the irritation.
The ugly headed poison dart.
But I want you to like me.
Instead of changing; truly loving.
I’ll brush it with acrylics; you’ll see nothing.
Truth is, I’m hiding from something
inside me.
I’m the painted up celebrity
on TV.
The carved marble headstone
covering the body.
Scheme | AXBCBCDXDXA EEEAAAXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101001 1110100001 10101 11110 01110001 11111 1111010 0111111 011110010 01010101 1111111 011101010 11110101110 11110110 011 101010100 111 01101 100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
About this poem
We build beautiful facades to hide the dirt under our skin; the blood that pumps selfish longing. I wrote this poem to explore the idea that we lock away our true evil nature.
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Written on April 25, 2022
Submitted by osomstudios on May 25, 2022
Modified by osomstudios on May 25, 2022
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