Analysis of the CHAIN



I chose to be the weak link in the chain,
because that chain no longer served.
I broke it to be free of a world unsane.
For to fly is to reach for skies azure.

As if to dream of places unimagined,
might imply that they can not exist.
As if to seek out love confined in logic,
means that what I feel are phantoms  still.

Fathom will.
There-until
something breaks.
Feel it shake.

Soon enough the rust gives way,
pulverized to dust.
Moon above. Thy strength decay.
All defy the just.


Scheme AXAX XXXB BBXX CDCD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 1111011001 01111101 1111111011 1111111110 1111110010 101111101 11111101010 111111101 101 101 101 111 1010111 1011 1011101 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 474
Words 94
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by Amarantine on April 28, 2020

Modified on March 31, 2023

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