Analysis of Miles
As slick as black ice, his fingers tap
boredom on the valves
gentlly blowing your mind with a single
breath,
slaying you with a horse whisper.
The nights are cool and the women fawn
over the charcoal wizard, Bua's archetype,
St. Louis' son and Aphrodite's lover,
he breathes life into your deflated
spirituality.
Proud, remarkable, he lived the sins of
indulgence
and allowed his passion to foster
addiction.
Perhaps his sound is the longing of a plea
for a better world and a satisfied
appetite.
Miles begins the journey exhaled from within
that will poke you soulfully on the inside
of your turtle shell.
Scheme | XXXXA XXAXB XXAX BCX XCX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111111101 10101 110111010 1 10110110 011100101 100110110 1101001010 111011010 00100 1010011011 010 001110110 010 01111010101 101010010 10 10101001101 111111001 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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