Analysis of Arbitration



Stalking like a feral wolf is their memory
The very apparition that is the antithesis of me

Could I be indifferent mastering apathy
I would bend like the reeds and grant you what you seek

Would I razz your heart to abrogate your thoughts
And if I learned the truth could I take the cost?

Gorgeously disturbing is the daftness of this peril
Is it written I shall tame what I consider feral?

The stars they glimmer whispers, but they fail like all that falls
Could I heal the heart that memory has mauled?

I question you, to answer you, to grant you pieces of me
I must learn indifference and master apathy.


Scheme AA AX XX BB XX AA
Poetic Form
Metre 101010111100 010010110010011 111010100100 111101011111 1111111011 01110111101 10101011110 11101111101010 01110101111111 11101110011 110111011111011 1110100010100
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 594
Words 113
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on September 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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