Analysis of wintering
there's nothing really happening
everything is just a softening
inside a 32 inch cage a clock ticks on in emptiness
and deep within
where fears begin
and all men ruin
a bird hatches a fever breaks a mother shakes
Being treated lowly hurts a lot
They claimed to own me - they do not
they only found a way to anger me
but i don't give anger power over me
No vice nor virtue can define me
I control my own sweet destiny
they can't predict my sideways action
in strife, I strafe & keep on laughing
If simple fear could drive me batty
I'd be sipping tall boys with the natties
in other words, I'd still be where I came from
No one can control my tongue nor bic
as long as ink and blood have flick
hydrant of life and spark of wit
toward audience I dare remit
my coarsest verse & will posit
my worst thought crimes upon this page
There's nothing really happening
Everything is just a softening
I like to hide out in the places
between where I exist
and where I do not
I am a fine structure
one in one hundred thirty seven
there's nothing really happening
everything is just a softening
so cold, so cold.
Scheme | AA bccdx eeff ffda fbx gghhxx AA xxe xdAA x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100 10110100 0101101110100 0101 1101 01110 011001010101 101010101 11111111 1101011101 11111010101 111101011 101111100 11011110 01111110 110111110 111011101 01011111111 111011111 11110111 10110111 011001101 111110 11110111 11010100 10110100 111110010 011101 01111 110110 101101010 11010100 10110100 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,094 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 4, 4, 3, 6, 2, 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on January 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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