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
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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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