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 |
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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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