Analysis of in your covers

Gregory Ramos 1961 (Azusa)



nothing matters in your covers
for the dark has found a home
wicked lies entangled in your web
in the night you cry for the light
for that's when you figure it out
never given cause for the loss of
your clouded thoughts of love
stuck to the mask you have thrown
away over and over an over again
enticing your pray with love sweet
honey only to be taken away gone
erased to be found like some relic
dug up by your lusty prospectors
and tied to the hood of the Dart
lifeless and crippled this rusty tool
no use never used through your
mask you see innocents , denial,
lust and venomous rapture all in your
widening eyes as the knife stabs
you in the quilted shame


Scheme ABCDEFFGHIJKALMNONPQ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 10100110 1011101 101010011 00111101 11111011 101011011 110111 1101111 011001011001 01011111 10101110011 011111110 11111010 01101101 100101101 1110111 111100010 1010010101 10011011 100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 650
Words 128
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 530
Words per stanza (avg) 129
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Submitted by gramos on January 24, 2021

Modified on March 14, 2023

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