Analysis of Telling, Told And Sold



Improbable worshipping difference of styles
chilly nights game board darker smiles
harmless spirit lifting back
witches summons white of black
crossing the bridge fortunes to tell
palm reading mystical crystal balls spell
mentally sketching pictures images of luck
enter own risk in the presence of shmuck
broken mirrors blackened cats under latter
one faith or the other does it really matter
fairground ambience candles and inscense
streetwise mood altering common-less pretense
desperate answers last buck trial
courses of foolishness black-hearted beguile
brews and potions future notions
rotten luck past decisions and devotions
critical reasonless just not thinking
blind trickery beliefs and wisdom sinking
realms chilling tingling spine
fervent mood members secret society shrine


Scheme AABBCCDBEEAFGHIAJJKK
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 010010010011 10111101 1010101 1010111 10011011 1101001011 100101010011 1011001011 10101011010 111010111010 11001001 1110010101 10101110 10110011001 10101010 101101001 10011110 11000101010 1101001 101101001001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 786
Words 113
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 673
Words per stanza (avg) 113

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Submitted by Soul-to-song on June 03, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Brian Oliveri

I had written a large book of poetry that of which I have narrowed down to 175 poems. more…

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