Analysis of Invisible Scythe
This time the foe was too potent.
He fell to his knees suddenly
cut by an invisible scythe.
His resistance broke under siege,
while his heart blew apart
and he banged his head
against the world in a slow tattoo.
His screams went unheard, unrecorded.
For in the distance
she watched...
a cold, dry-eyed witness,
without remorse, without involvement.
He stroked the air as if to make love
to living one last time.
From erotic agony to embrace oblivion.
Scheme | AXX XXXX XXXXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110 11111100 11101001 10101101 111101 01111 010100101 11101010 10010 11 011110 010101010 110111111 110111 10101001010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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