Analysis of How He Speaks His Mind
What sibilant consonants
conjure his image: angular, Germanic,
uttering phrases and grunts, monosyllables
forcefully spat into air alive,
filled with his vivid verbal assaults!
No saccharine sentiment for him.
He lets fly with steamy staccato
streams of purposely purple prose,
unblemished by boorishly banal
concern for social civilities.
Squeamishness never slept next to him!
But notice (not noticeably, please)
how his eyes seem furtively to flit
from yours, to gaze down at his hands,
pale and strangely delicate -- graceful!
And his cheeks are dusted with a blush,
under eyes not steely blue but liquid brown.
Scheme | ABACDEFGHAEIJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100 10110100010 10010011 100101101 111101001 11010011 11111001 11100101 0101101 011101 100101111 110110001 111110011 11111111 101010010 011110101 10111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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