Analysis of Fingerpaint



My fingertips engulfed
in blue rivers of paint
Carry me away inside
your gushing purple tide

Gray puddles weigh down
like feathers or like
pavement
fresh and wet like after
bein' poured
or minutes after rain

My finger believes
that gray means gloomy
so it pulls it to
oppisite sides

Gray and yellow collides!

A thousand suns reflecting
pulling orange rays
injecting red burns
(good thing it's washable)

My finger swirls 'round
to greet every colour on the
wheel
along with the neon's
the green's and baby pastel's

My finger dances a
painter's dance
Throw colours but look
at you now!

Look down at your palette
look down at the ground
all the fun is over

Rivers gushing brown.


Scheme XXAA BXXCXX DXXE E XXXX FGXDD GXXX XFC B
Poetic Form
Metre 11001 011011 1010101 110101 11011 11011 10 101110 11 110101 11001 11110 11111 11 101001 0101010 10101 01011 111100 11011 11100110 1 01101 010101 110100 101 1111 111 111110 11101 101110 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 644
Words 119
Sentences 4
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4, 1, 4, 5, 4, 3, 1
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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