Analysis of In The Vortex Of Silence
A composition's rhythm wanders thought
while stars undress themselves of bright light: taut
history - a spiralled steady onslaught
towards melancholy eyes; watered hues,
emerald earth and rippled seas of blue,
in madness, a poetic amber's sought.
As cold loneliness strangles solitude
elevated imagination's viewed -
suggestive simplicity is subdued
by visionary manuscripts of time
that search in anguish for a fairer clime,
this heart and soul are in an endless feud.
Dark substance twirls form on its fingertips,
notions embalm the mind's ghostly transcripts
and in the vortex of silence; pursed lips,
colour stretches across beautiful sighs,
weariness balances truth and sweet lies
then slips to the realm of a dream's eclipse.
Handwritten scrawls of ragged quality
dance through reflection's disturbed poetry,
here within the night a spirit brusquely
chimes the hour's musical departure -
as pain stalks the wild shadows of pleasure
the dawn sprinkles feathered anxiety.
Scheme | AAAXXA BBBCCB DXDEED FFFGGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110101 1101011111 10001101 011001101 101010111 0100010101 11100110 10011 0100100101 11001011 1101010101 1101101101 110111110 100101101 0001011011 110011001 1001001011 1110110101 101110100 11101100 1010101010 1010100010 111011110 0110100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 952 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on December 02, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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