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 |
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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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