Analysis of Colonizers
Maybe I exist in empty spaces
Quick glances, vacant stares,
Vacuum chambers of yearning
Void of air and touch, bereft of purpose
And meaning
Alternating between belligerence and helplessness,
Waiting to dry up like raisins;
Sweet on the tongue,
Swallowed up by larger things
And expelled into space
Like dead skin from a body
Floating through the daily dust bowl
Of recycled needs, to be
Dropped ashore;
The peninsular colonization of the groin
Lays waste to everything
Rail tracks of desire laid into
The hinterlands
For my riches to be borne away.
Scheme | XXABAB XXXXCXCXXAXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101010 110101 1010110 1110101110 010 1000101000100 10111110 1101 1011101 001011 1111010 10101011 1010111 101 001000010101 11110 111010101 010 111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 13 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
This poem is about desire, the relentless need for affection and intimacy and how the lack of it consumes and ravages one akin to the economic and social destruction left behind by colonizers.
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