Analysis of Dew on Rose.
The scrapyard made her sag her head
only the corn cob in her hand aligned to a beautiful world.
Her hands ached in pain having smeared the scorched cigarette ashes on her lips, giving up on catching man's eye for the day.
Dew had collected over night softening
the yellow petal of a dress, moist and striped in pink.
Vulnerable it stilled the body, allowing the stroke to last longer than usual.
As calm and soft as the tiny white dog was
it's person was raging an inner tug of war,
as if angels were on one end and humanity the other.
Humanity was winning, their stories becoming too attractive and the entice would be the fall of them.
One by one their hearts exploded in light,
their swords of love having stuck to every provoking thought.
Becoming man itself was not that easy though their wings were lost, ever glowing they walked towards humanity begging them for mercy.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110101 1001100101101001 0110110101011010110111011101 11010101100 0101010110101 1000110100100111101100 11011010111 110110110111 1110011100100010 010011011001010100001110111 1111101001 111110111000101 0101011111011101101011010100101110 |
Characters | 866 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 54 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 701 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 159 |
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Fingerprints leave their trace wherever you go.
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Written on September 11, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 11, 2021
Modified on April 03, 2023
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