Analysis of The Mask
Do you synthesize your anger,
do you cauterize the burn
Do you anesthetize the wonder,
as your dreams are drugged and scorned
Is your judgment tempered badly,
with emotion fiery hot
Is your vision colored madly,
by your choices—sold and bought
Does your music play reclusive,
do your words fall off the page
Does ego kill your last excuse
—that mask you can’t explain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
Scheme | AX AX BC BC XX XX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 1110001 111010 1111101 11101010 10101001 11101010 1110101 11101010 1111101 11011101 111101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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