Analysis of Vicious Is Kept Lust



Vicious is kept lust hushed.
And left smothered up hidden,
Beneath a need to have it fed and treated.

A craving tease left to go unpleased,
Is as dangerous as a carrot.
Held within sight.
But away from a starving rabbit.

And so is a lusting.
Fed to feed and taught to believe,
This habit to satisfy by any means necessary...
Is one's duty and obligation,
To take.
Then create,
A declaration of ownership.
Done to then fight over the right to feel,
Entitled to receive...
Threats from those whose relationships,
Were broken and forever destroyed.
By winks from strangers.
Thrown kisses and slow licked lips!
Temporarily.
Without a name to exchange.
Or time returned.
From an impulsive waste of it!

Vicious,
Is a kept lust hushed.
To have had once smothered up.
Hidden.
Beneath a need to have it fed and treated.
To exchange, temporarily...
For a few moments of pleasure.
More satisfying when kept in one's mind.
Than in reality to find it,
More of a waste to reminisce...
What had been covered up from head to toe,
Can and will expose what's not shown...
When the alcohol begins to fade away,
From a mind quick to fantasize...
Truth for what it is.
Untied to drop,
Before lieing eyes to see.
Hung.
Vivid; undisguised!

'Uh...
Why the look of surprise?
I thought you knew.
I kept touching my 'Adam's apple!'

'I...
I was raised not to pass judgement.'


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Poetic Form
Metre 101111 0110110 01011111010 01011111 111001010 1011 101101010 011010 11101101 1101101101100 11100010 11 101 0010110 1111100111 010101 1111010 010001001 11110 1100111 0100 0101101 1101 11010111 10 10111 1111101 10 01011111010 1010100 10110110 110011011 1010111 1101101 1111011111 10101111 1010011101 1011110 11111 0111 011111 1 1001 1 101101 1111 111011010 1 11111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,352
Words 294
Sentences 38
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 17, 19, 4, 2
Lines Amount 49
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 172
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Written on October 26, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on October 26, 2023

Modified by lpahtillah on October 26, 2023

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