Analysis of Looking Forward to
The night looked forward to the brilliant morning; completely engulfing its chill with flamboyant light,
The deserts looked forward to rain; a billion droplets of water to quench their insatiable thirst,
The freezing slopes of the snow laden Antarctica; looked forward to a flurry of playful penguins; wandering around pompously with their protuberant necks poking out,
The dying plumes of black smoke; looked forward to fresh heat; incinerating their pathetic persona once again; into crackling flames of golden fire,
The blood shot and morbid eyes of the convict; looked forward to loads of compassionate empathy and moisture,
The solitary patches of the winding and century old road; looked forward to boisterous traffic; scores of innocuous children inundating its gloomy ambience with
lots of cheer and spice,
The slaves toiling unrelentingly all night and day; looked forward to some time occupying the seat of their master; thereby metamorphosing all their
imprisoned dreams into reality,
The goats philandering amidst appalling piles of rotten garbage; looked forward to sprawling meadows of fresh grassland; blissfully munching corn and succulent vegetable,
The gang of eunuchs begging in their discordant voices on the streets; looked forward to another birth in which they were born as perfect humans; were able to
exist harmoniously and procreated their progeny,
The brave soldier sleeping dormantly in his bunker; looked forward to a blood curling war; fighting with all his might to protect his country,
The completely dried river bed; looked forward to tumultuous spells of rain to overwhelm its surface; yet again with scores of twinkling fish and water,
The brutally chopped tongue; looked forward to growing again; loudly speaking all the words it had perceived in its times of distress; in a single stroke of time,
The wholesomely barren streets of lanky canvas; looked forward to being embedded with rustic color; an ensemble of vivacious lines rendering it with a profoundly dynamic appearance,
The pair of scarlet crested parrots incarcerated in their metallic cage; looked forward to soaring high and handsome in the sky; relishing and enjoying a life of freedom like most of their counterparts were doing at the time,
The famished alligator nestling on the banks of the river; looked forward to the tantalizing scent of humans; crunching them into fine grains of mincemeat with
its knife like jaws,
The boundless fragments of cloth lying buried under the debris; looked forward to being united as one garment of the flag; flutter in magnificent pride and glory while portraying the spirit of their nation,
The writer involved in mundane jobs of this world in order to survive; looked forward to gallivanting through the enchanting camouflage of the valley; keep
writing incessantly as each day took stranglehold of the night,
The receptionist sitting idle in the ghost town; looked forward to the melodious ringing of the telephone; greeting the person on the opposite side with a crisp 'hello',
The grizzly haired lizard traversing through the lining of the concrete wall; wistfully looked forward to sleeping in the jungle; with innumerable insects hovering seductively around its nose,
And my heart captured mercilessly in my chest; eagerly looked forward to breaking free every second from the norms and whims of this unceremonious society; basking
in the heaven of burning romance; loving and embracing every moment the person it adored; the entity in the first place that it throbbed violently; several times a
minute for.
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Metre | 011101010100100101110101 010110110101011011101001 0101101101001101010110101000111111101 0101111110111010010100101010110111010 011010110101101110100100010 0100101010010011110110010110100101001101001 11101 01101110111011110001111011111 01010110 011000101011101011011011111001010100100 01111001010101011101010101101101100101 0101000010101100 01101010110110101101101111101110 0010110111011001111011101011111001010 01001111011001101010111010111010010111 011011101011011001011010101010101100110010010010 01110101001000101011101101010001100001001110111110010101 0101001010110101101010011101010111111 1111 010101110101000111011001011101011000100101010100101110 01001001111101010111011100101010101 100100111110101 00100101000111101001001010101001010100110101 0101100101010100111001101100010101000110001000111 01110100001110011011011001010101110100010010 001011001100010100100101010100001111110001010 101 |
Characters | 3,549 |
Words | 563 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 108 |
Words per line (avg) | 21 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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