Analysis of Love, Sin & Serenity Are Haunted Houses
since the creation of their being these
words have haunted us: love, sin, serenity;
like victims of their pain and dynasty;
rolling in their odor, in love with their
bounty, pride, anxiety, and paradox.
I have nurtured insanity—plucked hell
from haystacks, burning firewood, gawking
at freedoms, not freedom, with tickets
for such raw, confusing definitions.
what is love that it hurts so bad? or the
notion of sin, the deficit of good,
the deep, dark presence of arrogance, in
essence, cleaving to its attraction, with
a muscular claim to serenity?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011101 11101110100 1101110100 1001100111 1010100010 1110010011 11101010 110110110 111010010 1111111110 1011010011 0111011000 101110101 0100110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 435 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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