Analysis of Intertwining Rules
Stretch sits on your lips!
The armor of intertwining rules
tightens around
the inflatable doll of your ego.
The rancorous, gigantic, right dressing ghost
sucks the juices
from your virtual backbone.
You have prayed for the preservation
of a refuge tree
and cursed as you swerved
to avoid a bum
You have reserved your heart
for your caviar cat.
She, Miss Meinhof, has turned herself
into your major, your Ersatz,
the woman of your alibi, your bedpan.
(You have mixed the grit
of her tiny roasted balls
in your breakfast stick.)
You are still splint-preaching
through the fumes
of your clumsy days.
Lack is your means of exchange.
Your revolution is
a reheating of mere milky mashed potatoes.
And the blunt jackknife of your sneer
you jab
into the embryo
of any elan.
(With panache they're bricklaying
the endless wall
against which you'll soon
be shot to pieces!)
Scheme | XXXA XBX CXXX XX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXAC AXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 01011001 1001 0010011110 01000101101 1010 111001 11110010 10101 01111 10101 110111 11101 1111101 0111011 010111011 11101 1010101 01101 111110 101 11101 1111101 10101 0111101010 0011111 11 01010 11010 10111 0101 01111 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 862 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
Official translation by Ludy Bührs of a poem by Coenraed de Waele, recognized by this Belgian author, who has many poetry books on his name. The name Meinhof refers to the terrorist group Baader-Meinhof (Red Army Faction) that operated in Germany.
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