Analysis of Armor hides the scar



We vomit the world from stomachs of hate
Devouring gloom from an unholy plate
We keep our scars hidden with an armor of grace
Laughter breeds masks and we call them our face

We associate value with skills in disgust
Founding our culture upon soils unjust
We dignify silence with abnormal cries
And banish all pleasure and hope from our eyes

We march through our minds on blankets of bone
To capture despise and make it our own
We dream curtains of flesh to cover the skies
And sleep in the recess where apathy lies

We witness our murders and brag of the deed
Make passionate love to sorrowful greed
We shallow the storage of fear in our life
Taking hostage the form we worship as strife

We follow the footsteps of beautiful ill
Place dangerous art in the blood that we spill
Overindulge in our cascading drought
The existence of pleasure in true form always doubt


Scheme AABB CCDD EEDD FFGG HHII
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1100111011 01001110101 1110110111011 10110111101 101001011001 10101001101 1101010101 010110011101 11110111011 11001011101 11101111001 01000111001 110101001101 1100111001 110010110101 10100111011 1100111001 11001001111 10100101 001011001111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 844
Words 157
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 25, 2023

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