Analysis of A descent remembered
This thin home breaking and falling away
As we burn hotter in flames of yellow and red
Each one stuck deeper and deeper within
Sometimes we cannot help but devour each other
May be we fill our stomach with the wrongs
You and I, we trade back and forth
But you stand round with griefless eyes
While your regrets consume like wild flames
Yet we let another slow procession weeping
And the burden is too hard to bear
Knee deep in it you grew weary and infamous
Through pains and sorrow
Find yourself lonely against your wish
Like the victims of kwashiokor
You loose weight in the limbs
And make it up in the belly
Until you can no longer stand or speak
But only wait broken and sad
When you were caught for a serious offence
You professed the name of a deity
To re-arm yourself and besiege our psyche
With your greek and bleeding charity
Hoping to heal your angry teethmarks
Like those brave people in grovelling silence
As you were beaten in the streets
Your manhood dangled like a dead lizard
You stay inside invisible pain bleeding
Still feeling the pr*cks in your feet
With unshed tears that linger
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001001 111100111001 1111001001 0111011010110 11111010101 10111101 1111111 110101111 111010101010 001011111 110111100100 11010 101100111 101011 111001 01110010 0111110111 11011001 1101101001 1010110100 111010011010 111010100 10111101 111100110 11010001 111010110 11010100110 110011011 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,071 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 29 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on April 15, 2023
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