Analysis of The Cadaver Stares
zebra black 1947 (ny)
my name written
in her uninhabited stare
beckoning for cockamamie
red summers dark kiss
like concussed
dropped video loops
slippery mouth
flute song
transiting star to star
and bugle horns
of gravity bend light
through her
white bones
velvet kiss
in asylum of sparks
splays queen fatale
with raptur'd eyes
posing in the shape
of a switch blade orgasm
every slit a shiver
her foot just so
she minds her dance
in a dooms day skirt
flouting a royal
procession of red
while a black rat cupid
rapes my psyche
de thing a fy me
she said
make death risque
like a dead end with a martini
and a ghastly
vermillion mouth
go a head she sneered
take a stab at it
maniac Venus
shakes off her blood
with shimmie shoulders
a honey comb tongue
she
a lyrical cadaverous stare
married to a hole
Scheme | XABCDX EXXXDFX CXGXXX FXXDGDDB BDXBBE DD XDXX BAG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 0001001 1001010 11011 11 11001 1001 11 100111 0101 110011 10 11 101 001011 111 111 10001 1011100 1001010 0111 1101 00111 10010 01011 101110 1110 11011 11 111 101110010 0010 0101 10111 10111 1010 1101 1110 01011 1 010011 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 6, 8, 6, 2, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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