Analysis of All That I Wanted To See
All that the fish wanted to see; was a colossal assemblage of salty water inundated with a flurry of undulating and tangy waves,
All that the bird wanted to see; was the gigantic expanse of blue sky packed with an voluptuous ensemble of misty clouds,
All that the crocodile wanted to see; was disdainfully garbled slurry of mud; a profoundly sticky track on which people slipped even before they could have
walked,
All that the rat wanted to see; was a tunnel engulfed with perennial darkness; a pile blended with sewage; cheese and garbage lying scattered on the streets,
All that the mountain summit wanted to see; was a festoon of ominous clouds; with sometimes glimpses of brilliantly sizzling hot sunshine,
All that the carrot wanted to see; was a blanket of clammy mud; varied piles of debris coalesced perfectly with soil,
All that the miserly caterpillar wanted see; was a trail of fresh farm crops; sprouting in splendid harmony on farm land; for it to nibble and chew,
All that the ducks wanted see; was placid pools of water around; an enchanting serenity lingering profusely in the atmosphere,
All that a starved dog wanted see; was a meaty piece of bone; crumbs of delicious bread left inadvertently on the bakery window,
All that the lizard wanted see; was a battalion of slimy insects pertinently hovering around the artificially dingy and dim light,
All that the mighty elephant wanted to see; was a stream of exotic water; which it could splash with heavenly strokes of its trunk on its parched body,
All that the bull wanted to see; was a fiery red cloth; evoking it to ferociously charge and wade forward unrelentingly,
All that the deserts wanted to see; was thunderous cloudbursts of rain; gargantuan droplets of water majestically caressing their brutally scorched demeanor,
All that the spider wanted to see; was a valley of silken thread; on which it could rampantly philander and dance under enchanting beams of moonlight,
All that the shivering skin wanted to see; was compassionate rolls of furry cloth; lanky strands of resilient fabric which would protect it from austerely chilly winds of winter,
All that the blinded eye wanted to see; was the faces of the ones around who stood by it in times of inexplicable distress; the sacrosanct palms of the mother who gave it birth,
All that the mind wanted to see; was the mesmerizing beauty of this boundless Universe; the stupendously vivacious traces of life that existed in bountiful on
this fathomless planet,
All that the vividly striped peacock wanted to see; was royally oligarchic sunset blended astoundingly with frugal globules of rain; fomenting it to spread its wings to a full blossom under the sky,
All that the fleet of irascibly loitering mosquitoes wanted to see; was supple and succulent pockets of ripe skin; inevitably inviting them to perch upon and suckle blood to their hearts content,
All that the badly tied stomach wanted to see; was heaps of appetizing food; transiting it into waves of tumultuous rhapsody and uncontrollable euphoria,
All that the dilapidated dungeons wanted to see; was mammoth boxes of scintillating diamonds and silver permeating their eerie dark and profound gloominess,
All that the elderly grandparents wanted to see; was their little children bouncing with ebullience and fresh signs of robust life,
All that the burnt tongue wanted to see; was tantalizingly pulverized white slabs of freezing ice,
All that the overwhelmingly feverish body wanted to see; was stringent cabinets replete with powerful antiseptic; magically healing its gruesomely ailing parts,
All that the Creator wanted to see; was the earth that he had evolved blissfully functioning; human beings of each race and fraternity embracing each other in the
spirit of unbiased brotherhood,
And all that I wanted to see; was her ravishing form every second; every minute; every hour; every day; every fortnight; every year; for countless more centuries and births to unveil.
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Metre | 11011011100100101101010010101100011 11011011100100111111101000101101 110101011111010110010101111011001111 1 110110111010011010010011011010101010101 110101010111011100110110110010011 110101011101011011011010110011 1101001001011011111100101001111111001 1101101110111001101001001000100010 110111011010111110101101001010010 110101011001011011000100010010010011 11010100101110110101011111100111111110 110110111010011010110100101101 11010101111001110100101100100001011001010 110101011101011011111110110010111 11010011011101001110110110101011011110101110 110101101110101010111110110100010100110101111 110110111010010111010010101011101001001 1110 11010011101111001110010011011110011111101101001 11011010010001010111100100101110100001011101010111110 110101101011111100110010111100100001000100 110010010101111010111001010011010011 1101001010111110101010100111011 1101110111100010111101 110010010010101111010001110001010001011101 11001010111011110110010010101110010001011000 1011010 01111011101001100101001010010100110011001110110001101 |
Characters | 3,961 |
Words | 656 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 25 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 111 |
Words per line (avg) | 23 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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