Analysis of Forever Dye For The Puppet Show
Curtains reveal the plane by golden ball
The puppet strings sway harmoniously to the furious winds
Etched onto the varnished mahogany cell
A new coat lies to conceal the tarnished stains
What a magnificent scene brim with cartoonish appearance
Yet a mere modest touch to bring life anew
See us smile and dance like monkeys in costume
Playing retro tunes, as we parade our masks
Dues set the stage, a performance of all palms
Masquerading props to enact each sculpted sketch
Unwilling eyes tell stories unvoiced, unassuming
Manipulating mood makes more masterful melody
Your bending will, you beat my core again
Desire of cardboard dreams are wrinkled few
An encore after is before detain
A box of wooden such of twinkled view
So pure in spite of unrequited blot
So free to me you bleed conjecture not
Despite your gaze to jester not fret
Do you blink or feel the pecking of my soul
So scared to know our time is due again,
Share my rhyme to express the glove you bare
A caricature of a character
A sucker to each punch
A doll, a figurine, I figure
All the skill to pantomime a sock
Every limb must be used on our words that we’ve paged
This regime not impartial to the parts that were bled
I see dimension, stones stumbling from lack of vision
Judged by muppets toying with their meaningful irony
Yellow, blue, satire, you feel hues palpable to my condition
Black, pitch, execute, ditch the morbid mind-pops, it's playful sarcasm
Ebb and flow is all I know, and when I pause, there is suspense
Like a riddle, a conundrum, a quandary is life; for a few moments the body is designed to forget
Alas, I am frail and the cover oh it fades
There is less to care for the pain that is prose
An epic arrangement to convey what is tale
Not a circus but a carnival on a much bigger scale
My joy and vigor to that of a clown
With frowns to workshop a fairy throne
Our theatre so giant is wired to serve
A need of desire that contracts my own
Neither an artist nor a poser in a heart weary of depose
But a minstrel or a vagrant with attention of which is craved
An expressful actor that never stops, a resonant chime in a broken clock
Once more, I act upon the sound that signals this symphony
Another roll to make the movements feasible
Else the shadows express their discontent
Familiar motions conjure laughter and reward
Deviation retribution through a faint scarlet splatter
Every jerk more fatal than the last
The silver threads dangle uncontrolled to the naked eye
Neither slow nor fast bears difference within the box
The same fate now a strand of durable hope
Too high or too low
Too great or too small
The final string detached as the curtains close forevermore
The show will never end until the puppet is dismantled and can dance no more.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011101 0101101000101001 11001001001 01111010101 1001001111010 10110111101 11101110001 101011101101 11010010111 01011011101 01011101010 0100111100100 1101111101 0101111101 111010101 0111011101 110110101 1111110101 011111011 11111010111 11111011101 1111010111 0100010100 010111 01001110 10111001 10011111101111 1011010101101 11010110011110 11101011100100 1011011110011010 111010101111010 101111101111101 1010001001001110110010101101 011110010111 11111101111 110010101111 101010100101101 1101011101 11110101 1010011011011 0110101111 10110101000110101 1010101010101111 111011010100100101 111101011101100 010111010100 101011001 010101010001 0100101011010 1001110101 0101100110101 1011111000101 01110111001 11111 11111 010101101011 01110101010101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 2,753 |
Words | 516 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
The poem is about the struggles of life and how they can be compared to a puppet show. Inspired by We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Written on August 08, 2022
Submitted by author177 on September 08, 2022
Modified on April 09, 2023
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