Analysis of careening into the dead end.
we became the avalanche
tearing down the slope
the previous exploding sky
forgot to give us hope
ours might be the last of nights
where my thoughts could always stray
laying with the forgotten toys
we've had to put away
disappeared, our minds might find
lasting past our dawn
shared together, the scent of forever
gathering the stars that have gone
smile, the destined, we may be
in empty and the wake
dance the song we murder now
for forgiven memory's sake
laughter tried to fill the ocean
sadness stole the moon
and i sat lonely at the quake
these songs are out of tune
the finding may be all that's left
the curing is the reason
drifting along the souless sky
the silence is our treason.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDXD XEXE FGEG XFBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 10101 01000101 011111 10110111 111111 10100101 111101 0110111 101101 1010011010 10001111 1010111 010001 1011101 101011 10111010 10101 01110101 111111 01011111 0101010 1001011 01011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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