Analysis of Asylum - Part 1



A love derived from my lunacy
Is what I know I'm surely soon to see
For like clumsy hands to the noxious glass
I reach out, clueless, in front of me
Pierced is the flesh of the desolate one
My eyes not but closed, I am blind
That is the love of a veritable state
And also of one that's unkind
As the shards sink and puncture
Deep to the core
I once more must ignore what ails
Steadfast my thoughts
Of the heart and its cost
For which I indeed mustn't fail
The abrasion within is surely deep
Through the time I long wait I am drawn
The pangs so persist as I wish we'd exist
And it feeds even more now she's gone
The doctor tells me I will be alright
Words of comfort as he leaves down the hall
I smile to those thoughts so merrily
As I stare at the soft, padded wall

(Written on September 21-22, 2012)

© Ricky Randall
September 26, 2012


Scheme AAXAXBXBCXXXXXXDXDXEAE C XC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (24%)
Metre 010111100 1111110111 1110110101 111100111 1101101001 11111111 11011010001 01011101 1011010 1101 11110111 111 101011 11101101 0010011101 101111111 01101111101 011101111 010111111 1110111101 111111100 111101101 101010 1010 010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 812
Words 168
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 22, 1, 2
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 218
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on September 29, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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