Analysis of Broken Equilibrium
You held a sword at my throat,
Cause your head was at gunpoint.
I see the gun in reflections of the blade,
But the silver edge's in front of my eyes.
I do not want to hurt you.
Still I dream,
Of your death, every night.
I pull out my hairs
For not knowing,
Whether I would grieve you
Or I would smile?
Either way,
I would be senile.
Broken equilibrium.
A pendulum swinging
Between acceptance and denial,
Denying what
I don't even know
Your death Or my pride?
Pride to shed tears
Hell! Why am I crying?
Would it be your death
That my throat closed?
Would it be relief
That it all died?
But would it end, though?
Because I will still see that dark shadow
Lurking In corner of my eyes.
The fog will still blur everything
Still On my knees,
I will clutch and cradle my being
When I'll lose control on road
Every once in a while.
Still, I will curse you
Remembering every scar on my mind.
And again, when the tears turn into sniffles
I'll get up and laugh
And ask again.
Is it my fault?
Did everything you say is truth?
Is it just that you have broken equilibrium too?
So for that,
I should forgive you ?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIEJKJLIMNOPHIQRSPOODITIUJEVWXYZ1 E2 E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 111111 11010010101 1010101111 1111111 111 1111001 11111 1110 101111 1111 101 1111 100100 010010 010100010 0101 11101 11111 1111 111110 11111 1111 11101 1111 11111 011111111 10010111 0111110 1111 111010110 1110111 1001001 11111 01001001111 00110110110 11101 0101 1111 1101111 1111111001001 111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,139 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 847 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 216 |
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