Analysis of Damnable Moderation
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
I'll just sit right here
in this sleepy three pm noonblaze
this is the searing crucible of July
when steam rises from rainwashed streets
barometric haghands around your neck
squeezing the breath from the me.
I want that nursery rhyme sunshine
Send Oberon's rays brilliantly arrayed
you know Im right I want newborn earthlight
the evergloaming of Elysium; a brush of stars
recall these stabby photonic railroad spikes
trumpet this infantry of the iris back home
We sat there, yes just right there no THERE
man that everblaze bathed us squeaky-like
it was the required warmth only, the median
can't take too much, we'll lose our seas
the ones he called to wake the spark
when Sol set the seas to quickening
The grinding growing time came with her
but it wasn't aimed never rifle-sighted
her heaviness-crippled soul a cistern
yellow gold flashed bright in jaded eyes
be careful love that smile is wine
a cup of solace only now; not too much
Not too much.
Scheme | XAXAXX BCCAAX XXXAXX XXXABD D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 01101111 1101010011 1110111 01010111 1001101 11110011 11110001 111111101 01101000111 111111 101100101011 111111111 11111101 1100101100100 111111101 01111101 111011100 010101110 11101101010 01101010 101110101 11011111 01110101111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 971 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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