Analysis of Flowers Aren't Always Restful To Look At.
You survive everywhere, parasitic, existing, feeding from others.
It's the only way for you - roaming and subsisting.
Compared to you, they are so unblemished.
Their pomaceous handfuls are so fresh.
Fairly inconspicuous, your ivory flowers are overripe.
They look right through you, I should too I suppose.
All fluorescence is fading, both of you are losing colour.
I know you are perishing, that's how it always works.
Once autumn's past, we all wither and die.
Home disappears and this place is white death.
It's all straw haired and beige, different shades but they very same.
Everything dehydrates; there's a brief aromatic splurge and then nothing.
The fires are beginning, the dried brown so easily inflamed.
The strips of petal curls and twist; harsh and delicate silhouettes of themselves.
You used to be striking, overly vivid.
Too full of life and so overbearing for the dull of my eyes.
Now I regret my hatred of you,
as it is now barren
because you left.
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Metre | 1011001001010110 10101111001 0111111010 111111 1001001100101101 11111111101 111101111101 111110011111 1101111001 101011111 111101100111101 10110101010110 0101010011110001 011101011010001101 11111010010 1111011010101111 110111011 111110 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 948 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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