Analysis of "covered" a poem in free verse
In drapes of my mouth,
the bass of the guitar,
I can't speak,
I fall on the essence,
of his voice.
I am weak,
to suspense,
of his wakeful ears,
that are covered,
over me.
Invented seed,
that we sow,
on the drop of a note,
to tell of our souls.
I can't speak,
as I'm speechless,
my hands write,
what I hear,
from his voice,
that sprinkles,
over my hearth,
of which,
I light a candle,
in which we see,
the glow,
that Kurt was to be,
in advance he told us,
while we were blind,
to the capo,
that he chose,
for us to find.
I am covered in his memory,
my hands keep writing,
to hear,
what he had to play,
on the true hands,
of his Epiphany,
stored deep inside to see,
NIRVANA.
Scheme | xxAxbaxxxcxxxx Adxebxxxxcfcdgfxg cxexxccx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 011001 111 111010 111 111 101 1111 1110 101 0101 111 101101 111101 111 1110 111 111 111 110 1011 11 11010 0111 01 11111 001111 1101 1010 111 1111 111001100 11110 11 11111 1011 110100 110111 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 17, 8 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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