Analysis of Inside The Dome
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
This dose of fog dims and blurs
Thick, difficult to see through
She likes to think you can't see her
Doesn't want to like to see you
A dose of dim to fog the view
We will see what we will see
Vague muffled voices comfort her
The vagaries of security
Icy fires in occupied homes
Warmed by fog right to the bone
Ease the shivers, never alone
Inside the Dome
Inside the Haunted Dome
Whatever gets you through the night
The foggy day, the black and white
It comes to reason that the light
Becomes the perfect place to hide
In the dome, a medicine chestful
Keeps the mess from getting stressful
Maintains a very highly successful
Attempt at living suicide
Whatever gets you through the day
Dead give to appointed flight
With just the fog to light the way
Dead give living up the fight
Voices whisper, friendly phantoms
Reveal mice in tupperware
Shadowy figures in corners
Reveal a god who isn't there
Icy fires in occupied homes
Warmed by fog right to the bone
Ease the shivers, never alone
Inside the Dome
Inside the Haunted Dome
God says life is a movie
Shadowy figures not really there
Life lies on her cutting room floor
There are no mice in the Tupperware
She settles in for the evening
Nestles in cozy, safe in her room
Pulls the fog up over her
A comforter over a tomb
Icy fires in occupied homes
Warmed by fog right to the bone
Ease the shivers, never alone
Inside the Dome
Inside the Haunted Dome
© John Kennan 3-22-14
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1100111 11111110 10111111 01111101 1111111 11010100 010010100 10100101 1111101 10101001 0101 010101 1011101 01010101 11110101 01001111 00101001 10111010 0101010010 0111010 1011101 1110101 11011101 1110101 10101010 011010 10010010 01011101 10100101 1111101 10101001 0101 010101 1111010 100101101 11101011 11110010 11001010 100101001 1011100 01001001 10100101 1111101 10101001 0101 010101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,393 |
Words | 266 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 8, 8, 5, 8, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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