Analysis of Plenary Rock



Let us get on toward the ekphrastic.
Vivid, lucid, deranged assumptions of a fanatic.
A rock. A rock, Nina Simone could be hiding under.
Sins and hymns swim about in vain.
Yet, the soul of a rock wishes to remain.
Considering the motion and commotion around so reckless and insane.
Stoic and heroic.
If proud, never mutters, I’d never loud.
Sits content, does not resent…. But I do.
And We are fashioned with intent.
Swatting at prophesies, so set on altering realities.
We pick up that plenary rock. Some throw it through windows, others use it as dildos.
But I, I smash my un-conceived child’s brains in with it. Then gently return it from whence it came so it may reflect on what it has not done and its new found fame.


Scheme AABCCCADEFGGH
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 10100101010010 01011001111010 10110101 10110110101 0100010001001110001 100010 1110101101 1101101111 01110101 1110011110010 11111001111110101111 111111011101111001111111110111111101111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 738
Words 144
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 560
Words per stanza (avg) 132

About this poem

This is a poem about how the human condition can sometimes force us to kill and store our dreams rather than putting them into healthy action.

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Written on May 01, 2022

Submitted by cjjohnson on October 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Chelsea Johnson

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