Analysis of "So Many Faces"
The second Glance was quick.
The motives sullen real or a trick;plenty of Games pains like a little prick.
So many options out of context assemble
Leaves devotion so shallow we tremble.
Madness common e'r day such a gamble.
Truth or dare corners your lair.
Trouble is your hair a quiz.
Once invested in magic uncontested
The new faith your heart is deep and
crested.
Homer's tragedy laid the republic a myth.
Epic new strategy electro magnetic sad or
Just drift.
Then so bleak the dust of Marys a cry
Of rich conceited tales
that drain and float to
Faces starved and
craven.
Then another question a friend or foe,
And galantly searching hope becomes a
snow.
Heart stopping lost connection of memory
and curved perfection.
The rack of all the dancers become a past;
A fuzz among all the channels like sheep
From spaced shadowed so fast.
Almost two hundred fit more in your wit
Many more are lost.
Still waiting to look desire in the faces
Laced mirrors foil empty
spaces.
Tomorrow wills so sure the grace of
splendor.
Truth be certain another curtain hopes
replaced and new faces.
Scheme | AA BBB XXXCX XXXXXXCD EXEFD GXG XXHFHXXXH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 010111 01010110111110101 110101110010 1010110110 10101111010 1111011 1011101 1010010010 01111110 10 101001001001 10110001001011 11 111011101 110101 11011 1010 10 1010100111 01101010 1 11010101100 01010 01110100101 0101101011 111011 111011011 10111 110110100010 110110 10 01111011 10 1110010101 10110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,484 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 9 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Moved to a small fishing village
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Written on August 10, 2022
Submitted by Jdl_metropolis on August 10, 2022
Modified on March 27, 2023
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