Analysis of A Strange Victory Dance



A levitating circle within an obtuse triangle can only exist within the second dimension

Stars have no home, yet they guide the lost

The Sun knows no sacrifice

Time drifts away and lands somewhere between yesterday and the day before today

Stones inscribed by wise prophets turn their backs on our ancient ancestors

Rituals of nothingness prevail and do a strange victory dance

Love will replace a moment long forgotten

The Universe shall swell to outrageous proportions

The energy from within will soon rear its ugly face

Waves of rage overcome the sins of the common man

Floating into the 5th dimension would prove fatal

All answers will come in time

Running out of existence in order to flee the gods of constraint

Pressure weighs upon even the smallest of creatures

Diving into the pool of knowledge is futile

Flying with wings of velvet the evil gnomes have seen the end

Let's dig into the deep recesses of our minds and fish for confusing entities

In this maze of darkness, laughter is our light

Never forget the voices and the visions of the lost souls

Live with a passion and you shall make it to the other side

Follow me to the depths of reality and I will show you the sorrow within us all

Fire is but an obstacle of the weak that we must conquer

Together we'll walk into the valley of a thousand thoughts

To ponder the tragic flaws of heroes spoken of by ghostly winds

I see the Earth in all its splendid glory being crumpled like a piece of useless paper

Hurled into the vast Universe, only to be dreamt of by the soldiers of the Ultimate Realm

Here above the clouds is where life begins and suffering ends

It's all around us, yet it patiently waits for us to realize its beauty

When blue has a sound and light has a taste, that's when the parade shall start

Fierce lions roaring with terror will meow like kittens

Calmness and tranquility will once again reign supreme

And our strange victory dance will be all the sweeter


Scheme A X X X B X A C X X D X X B D X X X X X X E X X E X X X X C X E
Poetic Form
Metre 01001001101101100101010010 111111101 011110 110101101100010101 10111101111101010 10011000101011001 1110101010 010111010010 01001011111101 111100110101 10010110101110 1101101 10110100101101101 1010110010110 100101110110 101111001011101 1101011001101011010100 011110101101 100101000101011 110100111110101 101101110011110100111 1011110010111110 010110101010101 11001011101011101 11010111010101010111010 10101101011111010101001 101011110101001 1101111100111110110 11101011011100111 11010110101110 10001001101101 01011001111010
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,966
Words 382
Sentences 1
Stanzas 32
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

In 1999, I wrote a poem called "A Strange Victory Dance", while I was being treated in a psychiatric hospital, for the first time, for Bipolar Disorder. Here is the poem! Enjoy!

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Written on May 28, 1999

Submitted by trevor_d on January 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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