Analysis of Litania
I who have travelled all roads: between ironed moods and mother-sad jerks, I have of necessity turned in drooling findings, whorish puppets have fisted at once madness-trend, calculating loves!
I drag myself with swollen legs like a rude crutch: a native of drum-thought! The screams of the lousy dead could not be carried by the howling winds as I confess and judge! In my shamed and penniless ways, the worms of the cycle bite into the flesh, seeking to make a career for themselves! They will poke the urns of my ashes!
Ambiguous Silence yet in vain surrounds me today! I'm being insidiously dragged lower and lower by the insidious trenches of self-devouring self-devouring-tinuses! Even the gnawed bones of omnipotent bliss have been taken from me by the vultures of the repaying vultures! Between their teeth they have broken Cassandra's prophesies, all-weary Prophets! - Our train-tracked bodies, bound in a single thread of rail-our world, Shiver for the redeeming Death-whistles for the umpteenth time!
On the laws of wheels we would trust, if we could do our sawed skulls! In the halls of our eyes, charred pole-stars anchor in the midst of our holed souls! Ouch! All the air has escaped from our flask-life, emptied between two notes!
Kiss-bearing confessions of endearment have clothed our lips, and from our stripped selves no longer can our babbled Dearest All-ness shelter us! Our feet too have been made strangers, that we might find the keys of our hearts! - On our toad-throne, the hypocritical lurkers are already preparing, lurking!
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Metre | 11110110110101011111010010101110110111011001 111110110110101110110101111101010111010101101001011010101011011001101111011110 010010101011011101110010100100101101001010011001110100111101110101001010011111101100110101011101001011110110100101101011 101111111111101100111011111000111011110110111011100111 110010101011101011011110110101011101101111110111101110111011001001101001010 |
Characters | 1,557 |
Words | 265 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 248 |
Words per line (avg) | 51 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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