Analysis of Deep Sleep
Dead Sleep
In the passing of night
She slept away in the dark
Slumbered in the storms eye
Resting within each breath
Harkened by a sharp noise
Rising from her own death
Beyond the world of kind
Left smothered in her sweat
A glimpse of a wrinkled braw
And a scar upon her cheek
Purged thin porous skin
and fiery devilish eyes
all was her mystique
From the bedrock beneath her feet
To a coloured blue moon
A howling sounds out
For her to loom
Born from desert sands
And old cattle bones
Summoned by the natives
To cleanse their souls
They dance upon fires
Chanting to the Gods
Hungered in vengeance
against white men
They rode into Little Big Horn
With the She Devil in there mist
She breathed upon Custer
Given to a death kiss
She is now gone forever
Back into death's sleep
Waiting once more
To be summoned by the CHIEF
Scheme | AXXXB XBXX CDXXD XXXX XXXX XXXX XXCX CACX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 001011 1101001 10011 100111 11011 101011 010111 110001 0110101 0010101 11101 0100101 11001 1010101 101011 01011 1011 11101 01101 101010 1111 110110 10101 1010 0111 11011011 10110011 110110 101011 1111010 10111 1011 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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