Analysis of Flowered Fields
Prophetic vision vividly assaulted her
as slaughter dripped from fingers; quick nervous motion,
rhythmically smooth, the heart still beat its violent pulse,
the future folded itself up and waved goodbye.
A warm open wound gaped in her reflected chest
while a serrated blade tumbled to the floor's stretch,
tears grew wings and flew from features silently,
she slipped from her body before it joined the glint
of agony captured by the mirror's cold surface.
And now, the depths of her pale escape are haunted
by her tortured spirit; fast curls of screamed existence,
trapped in repetition she relives her demise
each night with fresh memory tattooed in the mind.
The ghost of insanity wraps her in soft wool
as she scrapes her pleas for forgiveness against stars;
blinks of blue-red tones in the distance of Heaven,
where she had hoped to roam flowered fields of freedom.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOBP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101000100 110111011010 1001011111001 01010011011 011011000101 10101101011 11101110100 111010011101 1100101010110 1 010110101110 1010101111010 1001011001 111110001001 011010010011 111011010011 111110010110 111111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 707 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 147 |
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Submitted on September 22, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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