Analysis of An Encounter With A Mosquito
It ran miles further as I chased it,
faded from vision like a captivating mirage.
It escaped from my tightly curled fist,
survived the injury, changed its place of habitation.
It buzzed incessantly in vicinity of my bare eardrum,
was quiet as an angel when i scratched my flesh raw in
anger.
It multiplied in numbers in stagnant pools of water,
hissed discordant rhymes of exasperating music.
It perched on stale fruit, squashed remains of brown chocolate,
injected its venom in edible items of uncooked food.
It flew at small heights from the ground,
eluded clouds of smoke leaking from modern repellant coils.
It was a carrier of deadly infections,
stung soft flesh rich and pure with youthful blood.
It prompted patches of allergy to spread on skin,
was resistant to the strongest of medicinal balm.
It had caused me many a torturous night,
wrecked me of tranquil sleep from woolen delights of my cozy quilt.
It had surpassed all my imagination to render it lifeless,
had escaped my clutches on infinite occasions of time.
In the end I chalked a plan of action,
of being bitten, rather than spending a lifetime,
chasing the athletic mosquito in vast space of suspended air.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101111 101101010001 101111011 0101001111010 110100001001111 11011101111110 10 1100100101110 101011010010 111111011110 010110010010111 11111101 0101111011011 110100110010 1111011101 1101011001111 10101010101001 1111100101 1111011100111101 1101110010110110 101110110001011 0011101110 110101011001 10001001001110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,166 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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