Analysis of Whirlpools within Low Key Shots
Exclusive recipe for ‘BRONZE’: a dipsomaniac kookaburra + a bloodthirsty bat
+ wastelands, lagoons, and mountain ranges: 30 mg metallic luster was thus produced
(Canned for future use. Silk draperies were prepared too)
A low-angle shot: focus on her dark-moon eyes, to measure light…
(Objects around: a straight back chair, a black cat-- under the in the deep shadow of the archway,
Silver ornaments, dead insects haphazardly strewn,
Swirling, camera-dodging skirts, medieval rivers, and whispering breaths
Light source—the mighty agitator, rustled through the air
Where are your sandpapers? Polish this prickly canvas
And gloss of the second season is all unveiled now: but one of the objects in this still-life,
Has murdered the light.
In this abrupt, bottomless darkness,
Her hand, which raised you from the ground,
was captured by the wide-awake lens too (you haven’t even laid eyes on that snapshot ever)
GREGORIAN equals ‘rosy fingers’ plus ‘withering flowers’
LACRIMOSA equals ‘pale fingers’ plus ‘thriving flowers’
Scheme | XXX AXXXX BXABXX CC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100110110101 101010101010101101 1110111000011 0110110101111101 100101110111000011101 101001110001 101001010101001001 110101001101 11111011010 01101010110111110100111 11001 010110010 01111101 110101011111101111110 0100101010110010 11011011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,036 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 51 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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