Analysis of Agnus Dei



Why does dust seek to espy its place?

Will you enthrone ether runes ‘pon a throne?

Hye grimness from its corpse lands?

Ferret brother death across his own boiling river?

Wasted time will not go undebted nor waived

If fulness be gained, the skull would split

Your chiselings, your inks, your reverberations are but laddered rungs

Down and down; so many

all the way down

What prophets have you?

For is god not dead?

What joy seek you?

Are they not flitty fancies?

Splinter your shins (you have) with unbreakable rods called progress

A titan lamb upon its belly, feeding a world with a crimson river gush from Glacier Throat

But the massive lid opens

Green irised.  Life; the banalities

And a pupil that concentrates  


Scheme X X X X X X X X X A X A B X X X B X
Poetic Form
Metre 111111011 111101101 0101111 1010101111010 101111111 11110111 1111100101111 101110 1011 11011 11111 1111 111110 10111110100111 010101110100110101011101 1010110 11100100 0010110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 837
Words 188
Sentences 11
Stanzas 18
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 7

About this poem

Is life a banal pursuit of fantasies that will inevitably lead to the void? But then why does the Lamb bleed?

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Written on December 28, 2022

Submitted by aarong.72161 on May 01, 2023

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