Analysis of Her Mortal Remains



With a fine womanliness she dances
across the fracture that runs down my eye,

her quiet beauty is legendary,
a blustery wind like a definite sigh,

and I slip into her mortal remains,
gather up all wild symbolic ash,

tonight it is me who will curtsy
as she wanders the plains of these pains.

As sick as inanimate romance,
I spill flowers from a delicate sky,

and guitars pluck this spirit from the flash
of bright light that drives me insane.

I'm a relic inside a decayed town,
the gutters capture me facedown,
stars burst along her sensual frown
and I think it's time to drown...

...in her vision which bubbles with anger,
in the derelict frame that'll never give closure.


Scheme XA BA CD BC XA DX EEEE FF
Poetic Form
Metre 1011110 0101011111 010101100 01001101001 0110101001 101110101 011111110 111001111 111010001 1110101001 0011110101 11111101 1010010011 01010111 110101001 0111111 0010110110 001011010110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 655
Words 121
Sentences 6
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on August 12, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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