Analysis of Cleaned



Sexuality: prime machine

Nature takes its course,

brought in fierce whipping winds

of change in my adolescent brain.

in ascendant pain

stabbing stains and guilty rains

showing strain in each refrain

in my adolescent brain.

Later years and mixed up fears

Bring tears, and shear

away a soul. Morality is in arrears.

...what? Brought new lens new angle new sight?

An old machine in a bright new light?

The sweet light shaft she lightly cast

lifts joy and redeems the gleam;

rust of shame and guilt is cleaned

until shine! Shine! Shine! It seems

To feel the machine so clean!


Scheme A X X B B X B B C X C D D X X X X A
Poetic Form
Metre 0100101 10111 101101 11010101 00101 1010101 1010101 010101 1010111 1101 010101001001 111111011 110100111 01111101 1100101 1110111 0111111 1100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 611
Words 110
Sentences 15
Stanzas 18
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on February 13, 2016

Modified on April 28, 2023

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