Analysis of Adultery's Steel Visions
Acidic tones soared across broken words;
dark stutters of lime shaped apologies,
your voice was a nightmare disguised with silk
as it tore up wild excuses then squeezed
with sultry tones of the warrior's song.
There were no citrus tears to save me now,
no gentle smile to soothe the wrath given,
as you twisted the pith of my language
I devoured scents of imperfection,
the death of true love had been by my hand.
Guilt's manufactured paper thin reason
burst into flames while heartache erupted,
perhaps, if I could reverse time's dank flow,
I would not travel through her wanton caves,
it was too late for I'd succumbed to lust.
And as the shivers of the present run
down the past's cold features, I accept all
the anger with my head bent low in shame,
adultery's steel visions captured me,
there are no promises to make it right.
Scheme | ABCDE FGHGI GJKLM GNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101101 1101110100 111010111 1111101011 11011011 1 1011011111 1101110110 1110011110 101011010 0111111111 1 101010110 10111110 0111101111 1111010101 1111110111 1 0101010101 1011101011 0101111101 1110101 1111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 661 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
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Submitted on November 01, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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