Analysis of A Wide-Eyed Rascal



Individual imagination
swerves across an eloquent expression,
poetic thought juggles complexity
with simplicity's creative angles,
wordy wisdom tumbling through easy ways.

A poet is: a wide-eyed street rascal
who throws stones at passing cars as laughter
gathers the night's suicide with cold nets,
and middle aged women that blow kisses
to strangers in bars while smoke rings billow.

Composition strangles black and white life
as birth wraps chords in slaps of existence,
slaughtered sonnets and visual villanelles
roam ghosts; chained to sexual desire,
the wire of compassion in each of us.

A dreamer suffocating in a world
of intensity while the dead pen spins,
where political correct winks then wanks
humanity's twelve inch ego until...
it spills personalities; messed up verse.

I'm a poet! In an age of penny
for your thoughts and inspiration's red eyes,
a character that puts two fingers up
then moves in closer to touch the tongue's curl,
a fighter in a time of cowardice.


Scheme AABCX XDXXX XXCDE XXCXX BXXXE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01000010 1011100010 0101100100 1101010 10101001101 0101011110 1111101110 100110111 0101101110 1100111110 01011011 1111011010 101001001 1111100010 01010100111 010100001 1010010111 1010001111 0100111001 110100111 1010011110 1110111 0100111101 1101011011 0100011100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 956
Words 159
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 159
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on August 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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