Analysis of Dementia Pathos



Dementia Pathos
Dementia demi
Spins over the orb,
Remembrance claiming
Through chaos of drops

Through windfuls of tempests,
Through fires of strikes:
Beware you, tenets,
Heaps stinking of rugs!..

Memorial mori –
Life stone creates
To chisel your warrant,
To put in your blade,

To make Hero’s stature
And earn holy Right:
For Legend to cure
Souls seeking their light!..

Let statues and temples
Be crushed and restored –
And grandsons of vandals
Their essence adore:

Dementio-cratos
In auto-start –
Rebirth its new pathos,
Frankincense and nard!..


Scheme ABXXX AXXX BXXX XCXC DXDX AXAX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (36%)
Metre 010010 010010 11001 01010 11011 1111 11011 01110 11011 010010 1101 110110 11011 111010 01101 11011 11011 11010 11001 01110 11001 11 0101 011110 1001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 532
Words 87
Sentences 3
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on December 23, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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