Analysis of Bearded
I didn't need a pair of scissors; glistening wildly in yellow Sunlight,
I didn't need a knife; protruding gallantly from the slender handle,
I didn't need a hostile blade; with edges as sharp as a savage vulture,
I didn't need after shave cologne; emanating a scent more stupendous than the rose,
I didn't need a pungent slab of aluminum; having its surface as smooth as white ice,
I didn't need a soft sponge; with its body profusely dipped in tingling antiseptic,
I didn't need tablets of colored soap; evolving a bath of bubbles after vigorous scrubbing,
I didn't need high pressured foam; diffusing into a stream of spicy froth the instant I compressed it,
I didn't need long spools of cotton; triangular heaps of bandages to drape across my wounds,
I didn't need shimmering tweezers of pure steel; to scrupulously pluck my hair,
I didn't need sleazy colored dye; with its shade resembling rotten vegetables decaying in the dark,
I didn't need a blow dryer; ejecting out tones of hot air at whirlwind speeds,
I didn't need a barrel of vanity powder; to spuriously illuminate the contours of my face,
I didn't need a bowl of moisturizing cream; to incessantly massage each pore of my skin,
I didn't need sizzling face pads; to caress the breath flowing harmoniously out of my nose,
I didn't need a mirror; to admire my reflection for marathon hours in the
scintillating glass incorporated within,
I didn't even need to waste a single second more in the morning; reaching the office well before the boss came in,
And the strange thing was; that even if someone donated all the above contraptions to me completely free; I still would blatantly reject them,
By now you must be at the edge of your seats to know the secret of my existence; well the answer to this is more simpler than your voice; as I didn't have even
the slightest of free space on my cheeks; or to put it more succinctly I was bearded
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Metre | 110101110100100101 110101010100101010 1101010111011101010 110110101100011010101 11010101101001011011111 1101011111001010100010 1101101101010011101010010 11011101010010111010101011 110111110010011100110111 11011001011111000111 110110101111010010100010001 1101011001011111111 110101011001011010001111 110101111101000111111 1101100111010110010001111 110101010110101101000 11010001 110101110101010010100101010110 0011111011101001010110101111100011 111111011111101011010101011111001111110110 010111111111110101110 |
Characters | 1,901 |
Words | 337 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 72 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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