Analysis of An Insane Poetic Performance
With malice pinned to my laughter's decay
I twitch in a barbaric reflection;
fear's futile escape trapped within your eye,
and the blade glides through a tainted bouquet
that saturates this psychotic engine,
it is my pleasure to witness you die.
Your insane poetic performance wilts
as I squeeze humanity's bright colour
and savour the wild chaotic voices,
there's a plasma show which quietly lilts
as your vision quickly becomes duller,
I twist hate in your life's final sketches.
It's such a pleasant night watching this scene,
the wet moon's in a primary disguise,
it honours these moments that I relish,
fate's perversely dark humour is obscene,
but to bitter me, it holds no surprise,
I am far removed from being squeamish.
Goodbye lolls from your tongue's open curled plea,
a hint of sorrow vies for attention,
but it's dismissed as I retrieve my knife,
I'm feeling emotional, quite greedy,
there must be another broken heathen
whose dead spirit I can remove from strife.
With a jaunty step and a farewell wave
I kick your red presence with a flourish,
the time's right for someone else to suffer,
I will not accept just one victim's grave,
there needs to be more to ease this wild wish
for blood to be the night's silent author.
Scheme | ABCABC DEFDEF GHIGHI JBKJBK LIELIE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110111101 1100010010 1100110111 0011101001 1111010 1111011011 1010100101 111010011 010101010 1010111001 1110100110 1110111010 1101011011 011001001 111101110 101011101 1110111101 1110111010 111111011 0111011010 1101110111 1100100110 1110101010 1110110111 101010011 1111101010 011111110 1110111101 1111111111 1111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,206 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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