Analysis of I'm falling for a spider lily
A spider lily kisses my lips,
perfume so sickly,
impossible to resist.
"Temptation is the devil" I cry,
& throw it off the ledge.
The petals call out my name,
they know I yearn for them.
Overcome by subservience,
I feel compelled to obey,
the orders of the flower that sways.
I'm falling for a spider lily.
It's illogical to obey.
There's no reason to be servile.
Forgoing my task is fulfilling,
yet servitude feels divine.
I reach out a hand to grasp its beauty,
the allure life will never match.
I've fallen for a spider lily.
| Scheme | XAX XX XX XBX A BX XX AX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101011 01110 0100101 010101011 11101 0101111 111111 1010100 1101101 010101011 110101010 10100101 11101110 010111010 110101 1110111110 00111101 110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 536 |
| Words | 122 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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