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 |
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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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