Analysis of Scent And Spice
I consumed rice blended with fish curry,
added pinches of salt to exit from realms of bland taste.
i licked bare brick wall coated with sand plaster,
devoured spicy remains of natural plastic paint.
i trampled violently through fields of red pepper,
sprayed finely crushed powder in the vicinity of shivering tongue.
i swam at feverish pace in extreme salty solvent of the Caribbean sea,
wiped myself dry to feel allergic patches of faded red.
i pumped the air with a blend of perfume and green mustard seed,
sat for patient hours basking in a film of spicy atmosphere.
i rolled in clay mud sprinkled with pungent fertilizer,
smeared my wheatish face with semicircular cakes of flavored mud.
i sat on a cushion containing fermented yellow sour cream,
smelt of obnoxious odour all throughout the passing day.
i rubbed naked patches of my skin with hot repellant balms,
danced all day with thunder storms of ecstasy echoing through my eardrum.
i tore big chunks of orange ginger from tender branches of sapling,
drenched myself with a tumbler full of aromatic water.
i desired to breathe in an ambience of ravishing alligator perfume,
swim in colossal ponds of suspended salt for the remaining tenure of my life.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101110 1011111011111 11111101110 01010011100101 1101000111110 11011000010011001 111100100110101001001 11111010101101 110110110101101 1110101000111010 1101110110100 11111010011101 11101001001010101 1101011010101 1110101111111 11111011100100111 11111101011010110 1110101101010 10101101100110010001 100101101011001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,210 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on February 16, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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