Analysis of Finger Painting
Finger-Painting
A warrior grazes on the beast of death.
While finger-painting marks the walls
As bombs fall within it's darken halls
With a sighing planets on its last breath.
Once a world of beliefs now reneged
The shells near not its intended mark.
Thunderbolts drop on the man of dark.
While the orb spits upon who begged.
No intervention from an earth in peril grasp.
Tree's burn in flames, houses flare in vain,
Nothing still stands by the criminally insane.
Like a tool upon the land leaving a barren rasp.
As a man's childish world of finger-painting art
Destroyed in him from a life he now departs.
| Scheme | XABBA XCCX DEED XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1010 0100110111 11010101 111011101 1010101111 101101101 011110101 1110111 10110111 10101110101 110110101 101110100001 1010101100101 101101110101 01011011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 592 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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