Analysis of the Beginning starts at the end



Ascending cast iron steps,
as if to reach music coming from nowhere.
Approaching an abandoned crest,
gently yet effortlessly hurdling a silver steel bar.

No platform on the other side,
but instead of falling fast,
I glide.

Floating as a pantamorphous cloud,
through deathly still winds,
to some kind of structure,
that seems to bend.

Featherless mercurial sandals land.
An abandoned park; milky sand.
A street sign lying down as if to sleep.
Says "Pirate's Bay", what a strange name to keep.

Metal stars soar overhead adorned with swastikas
that seem to pierce vast black holes in the sky.
Instead of exploring this realm, i decide,
to see what lies on the other side.
I leap to the fissure, an immovable eye,
concealing all matter of incomprehensible light.
Bonded in crystalline, shining acrylic.
In all the excitement, i woke up... to music.


Scheme XXXX AXA XXXX BBCC XDAADXEE
Poetic Form
Metre 0101101 1111101011 01010101 101100010001011 1110101 1011101 11 101011 11011 111110 1111 1000100101 10101101 0111011111 1101101111 1011101011100 1111111001 0110101111 111110101 111010101001 0101101001001 1001010010 010010111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 832
Words 143
Sentences 14
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 4, 8
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by Amarantine on April 28, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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