Analysis of Suggest Impersonality
show me love, try not to tell me love.
too much broken, too much shattered.
so early it was, the banshee appeared,
she battled to destroy us, so left
behind
so lost, so relocated.
I heard he had you, so sexual, I
imagine the excellence, every position,
I let myself down.
the soul is vexed, a minx, fur inside,
spinning, essence grieving—so low in
voltage lately, trauma eating behavior,
I knew the destruction; I could feel it.
lights out, smelling courage, I come to
us,
self, pain in glory. good times,
like a widow, like black fights, so
cultured, so esoteric, so disruptive.
is it Adelle’s pain, transformation,
Kerry’s acting, beautiful the attractive
vats, liquor in blood, taste buds
blooming, Bassett’s mastery—last in
line, first in infatuation—I heard we
had fun?
no time left. I realize it’s meaningful.
to have one legacy, one gift, so pulled,
looking at pressure, wondering, what
we
tolerate; so foolish, I want to feel like a
fool, a clown, I want to touch, like
never on a good day—shaking, face
buried, tears of ecstasy, as given
something, we couldn’t afford to spend.
a man knows he’s in trouble, to
ponder the beloved, eyes watering,
palms made of awareness,
looking at invisible nails. jumping into
my mind, coalescing with passion,
converging on faith—I heard more is
impermanent.
I thank us for excellence—hurting
riddles, threshing moons, too much to
suggest impersonality.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRHRSKTHUVWTXYZH1 N2 ONH3 B2 NT |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 11101110 1101100101 110101111 01 1110100 1111111001 0100100100010 1111 011101101 101010110 10101010010 1100101111 111010111 1 1101011 10101111 1010101010 1111010 1101000010 1100111 10110010 1100010111 11 1111101100 1111001111 101101001 1 10110111110 10111111 101011101 1011100110 10110111 01110101 100011100 111010 101010011001 11010110 010111111 1 111110010 1011111 0100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,446 |
Words | 270 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,083 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 234 |
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