Analysis of red
johnathan biscuit 1995
I dream in red.
I dream in red.
I hear the soft shatter of resignation in my head.
I have taken to snails. Such stupid little things. Disgusting! Repulsive! Pathetic! So slow!
Their shells are remarkably soft.
Especially the large ones.
Tap them twice, and they curl up.
Pull them, and they let go.
Their fate is in your hands!
Now you are become death, destroyer of snails!
And let them fall to the ground. Your hands just move! They throw they throw they throw!
And hear their resigned shatter!
So soft, so cruel!
They just give up in the face of death!
So beautiful!
Scheme | AAabcdebfgbhiji |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101 1101 1101101010011 11101111010101001001011 11101001 010011 1110111 110111 111011 11101101011 01111011111111111 0110110 11110 111100111 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 439 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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