Analysis of red



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
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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Submitted by ryan1 on November 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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