Analysis of Nursery Rhyme for Blinky
I was clicking through the Sonogram Network
checking the rear-view to see what's next
it may be reality but is it a necessary reality
where anything out of the ordinary is signal
oh boy another uninvited anomaly
feeding time for my forehead demon
meant I had to go on vowel patrol
because the network was ancient with consonants
and invented malicious contours of meaning
that could be written but not pronounced
knowing that thoughts control other thoughts
if that were a key what lock would it fit
his crime was an addiction to accuracy
saved by measurement time and again
then another accursed round of inner blackmail
and extortion from the catacomb moralists
civilization had gone tiger humping mad
riding the carousel beast to their doom
leaving the steps of their TV studio ziggurats
slippery with fresh blood and beating hearts
for the contemporary retro-futurists
storming the fortifications of ignorance
with the Sunday horoscope as a map
he threw up his shrugging hands
in collective handcuffed exasperation
sleep with a pistol next to your yarbles
if you want to make a difference
in the modern world paranormal or not
now that daring had devolved to hypochondria
storming the fortifications of ignorance
with the Sunday horoscope as a road map
the bastards had so many hidden agendas
underlying rather than lying per se
making me listen alert to my muse
because her beauty sees through me also
only in a manner I can tolerate
guardian angels scream in my face
all is derived from something else
oh well enough flickers and you have light
the air becomes pearly and serene
an explanation or two never hurts
fuck the covert menace go play
rattle cages make the parrots squawk
how many ideologies preach fun
the last thing he said was
no time like the present
as moonlight bore into the earth
and sanity had become a necessity
even if there is no reason
there soon will be
From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101 100111111 11110111010010 110110100110 110100100100 101111010 1111111001 01011101100 00100101110 111101101 101101101 1100111111 111101011000 111001001 1010111101 00101010100 0010111011 100101111 100111111010 1001110101 10010010100 10000101100 10110101 1111101 00101010 110101111 111110100 00101001011 111010110100 10000101100 101101011 010111010010 0101011011 1011001111 0101011110 1000101110 100101011 11011101 1101100111 010110001 101011101 10101011 101010101 110010011 011111 111010 1110101 010010100100 10111110 1111 1101010100100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,943 |
Words | 341 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 50, 1 |
Lines Amount | 51 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 799 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 167 |
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