Analysis of Queen Of All That Is
I am happy, restless and strong,
And I will not defend the darkness any longer.
For too many years, you have kept me still
With your purse-lipped judgment and smooth disapproval,
Your competitive need to be Queen Of All That Is.
Creative
In your sly, seditious ways
You apprehend and ooze honey,
But it is poison
From your mouth with forked tongue
To the ears who beg to hear
A little gossip in the grain,
A little flaw in the wings of angels,
And they gobble it up like Turkish Delight.
The seed sown, you now sit on your throne,
Safely encompassed in the garden you've grown...
The stinging nettle, the hawthorn,
The barbed rose vines, the belladonna,
The deadly nightshade.
But the vines will rend and choke one another,
And then you, my dear.
You will be consumed,
And all the acid from your tongue
Will never be enough
To burn your path to freedom.
And I, liberated, sanctified, bathed in sunlight,
Am free from it all, and I take my leave,
And I have not altered a hair on my head,
Or on yours.
| Scheme | XAXXXXXBXCXXXD EEXBXAXXCXX DXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101001 0111010101010 1110111111 111110010010 1010011111111 010 0110101 1010110 11110 111111 1011111 01010001 0101001110 01101111001 011111111 10010001011 0101001 011101 0101 10111011010 01111 11101 01010111 110101 1111110 011001101 1111101111 01111001111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 974 |
| Words | 186 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14, 11, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 29 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
About this poem
We have all known someone like her. Sometimes she is Mother. Sometimes she is Sister or Aunt, or even Daughter. Sometimes we foolishly call her "friend". We may wish these toxic people harm, but I've found that if we just wait patiently, their own actions will come home to roost, and we won't have to lift a finger.
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Written on February 20, 2020
Submitted by KrissLuckett on September 20, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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