Analysis of Washing Tank
Crisp cotton shirt had developed stains of spilled coffee,
parallel velvet tie was coated with grease,
white spun vests resembled coal tar dustcloth,
flower embossed handkerchief smelt like rotten fish,
massive piles of square bedsheet showed blotches of saffron oil,
a heap of bandages contained liquefied yellow pus,
wrinkle free trousers had fresh traces of sea mud,
infinite pair of woolen socks lay like decayed brown,
triangular head caps were submerged in streaks of violet sweat,
plush upholstery covers showed smudges of wet muddy feet,
the colossal mansion was in a complete mess,
with dirt converging in animosity on every visible piece of clean cloth.
i took bulky amounts of carbolic powder,
several tablets of rough textured soap,
compact biscuits of chemically charged detergent,
blended the concoction of soap and powder granule,
in a deep tank containing crystal ground water,
stirred elastic walls of the solvent with a wooden bat,
creating gargantuan amount of pungent soapy froth,
dissolved the tonnes of soiled dirt cloth,
way down in the dark slimy interiors of my ever reliable hexagonal washing tank
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101011110 1010111011 111010111 100110011101 1011111101101 0111000110101 101101110111 1001110111011 0100110010111001 10100101111101 001010100011 110100010011001001111 1110011110 101011101 101011001010 1000101101010 001101010110 10101101010101 010010001110101 01011111 11001100100111001000100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,122 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 9 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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