Analysis of Fine Petticoats Of Ruffled Earth
Slight suggestions of vitality dance.
Luxuriant activity coolly blows
across fresh smiles and delicious whirlpools.
Breath of me, washing souls in other times,
energetic or lazily roaming
the smooth bones of past, present and future.
Schizophrenic wind am I, loftily
superior to breezy mood buildings,
destruction devours man's creation
in instantaneous shows of power.
Or I am gentle on your pastel skin,
mellow exhalation, heaven's whispers,
a spiritual presence which lifts hearts
into rippling beauty; leaves of love,
sweet perception's in eyes that swirl freedom.
I can uproot trees and toss them around
as if they were nothing but frightened twigs,
or move flower heads with passionate sighs
in wild gardens, fields full of colour, bright,
petals will shake with sensations given
while light laughter transverses evensong.
Nature's fine petticoats of ruffled earth
are guarded or exposed by my caprice,
I scratch waves upon seas as easily
as on a small pond's dimpled sereneness,
an invisible voice, a paradox,
for my actions are witnessed every day,
your feeble attempts to chain me will fail.
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Metre | 1010101001 01000100101 011100101 1111010101 010110010 0111110010 0101111 0100110110 0100101010 001001110 1111011011 100101010 0100010111 0110010111 11011110 1101101101 1110101101 1110111001 011011111 1011101010 111011 101101101 1101011101 1110111100 11011101 101001010 11101101001 1100111111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,076 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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