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.
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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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