Analysis of Waters By The Moon
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
Meditation suicide sunup
Tequila sunsets on the deck
Contact high from burning martyrs
What's that hangin round your neck?
Is that some kind of crucifix,
Perhaps a noose of style and flair,
Or just another silky tie
To mesmerize the prayers?
Your eyelashes are seaweed now
Prepare for duty nonetheless
The waters of the earth turn red
Avow glory in its gory mess
With your plastic plasma warriors
Sip Bloody Marys on the dunes
Think you're gonna turn the tide
As if you control the moon
Someone went off the balcony
The witnesses aren't gonna spill
Go, point your pointless weapons
Slug your fill of a bloody swill
Go, enrapture swordfish mermaids
Lure them to your waterbeds
If you feel like you're drowning
It's just the blood inside your head
When the haunts all come to visit
Through the portals in your cell
Bringing seaweed from the edges
Of stories they have yet to tell
And someone's reading you your rights
Or last rites, as the case may be
Remember the mermaid's tale
When your blood becomes their sea
© John Kennan 8-31-20
Scheme | XABAXXXX XCDCBXXX EFXFXXXD XGXGXEXE X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 0101101 1111010 111111 1111110 01011101 11010101 11001 110111 0111001 01010111 011001101 111010100 1101101 1110101 1110101 1110100 010010101 1111010 11110101 101011 111110 1111110 11010111 10111110 1010011 1011010 11011111 0110111 11110111 010011 1110111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,004 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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