Analysis of Angel Of Carbon
Beyond contours of 'first-glance' familiarity,
Lies the bolder blue-veined seeds of rarity;
The permanent cascading of a fiercer light,
Of the soul's forced-entry on atom's might.
In a 'Taurean' storm descending I've come,
Hammered on anvils of iron my potent clay;
Heated to froth, frozen stones under a sun,
Animated many forms in never-ending way.
Severed in end the ample 'shells' I've cast,
Discarded them all, ghostly husk n' corpse;
Favored long on river of 'chloro-green' sap,
Bleeding roots into Gaia's web of ley-cross.
Shared patient fate of all things fixed or not,
Partial I've become to a wild animate world;
Then ensconced a pillar of light in body-rot,
With tooth n' nail felt an ape's grip uncurled.
But alighted in latter days upon my human,
Caught repeat on cycling carousel of glow;
In a paradigm of finer-fit, found my acumen,
How long my sojourn-mystery I do not know.
Scheme | AABB XCDC XXXX EXEA DFDF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111110100 10101111100 010001010101 101110111 001101011 10111101101 10111011001 100101010101 1001010111 0101110111 1011101111 1010111111 1101111111 101011011001 101010110101 111111111 11010101110 10111001011 0010110111010 111101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 881 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on July 01, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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