Analysis of Marathon



Green fairy I wait for thee
Do not tarry open the bureau
Maketh me ready to receive
Divine destiiny tonight

Peer west you see the sun
Falls and this day is done
The tussel is over let me
Be the final squire you come to see

I hold you to the light, flickers it softly
Candle through your emerald bodied
Tonic releaser of anticipated fears
Desert lightening sentinal come oft

Gentle your sweet embrace
Essence like ampules in my veins
Of pure clover honey letting me
Forget my pain, manage my race

Is mine after all and I've done all I was taxed
As it were time that turned on me
Coward I am not for choosing to face forward
Nose to nose the marauder's gnashing jaw

Throbs my head and shallow my chest
I bring you out like a rubber mallot
Encouraging me to get the ball rolling
Controlling this menace which
Shreds apace a vestige carcass


Scheme AXXB CCAA AXXX DXAD XAXX XBXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 111010010 1110101 01101 111101 101111 0111011 101011111 11110110110 10111010 101101001 10100111 101101 1011011 111010101 01111011 111010111111 11011111 101111101110 11101101 11101011 111110101 01001110110 0101101 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 812
Words 158
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on December 29, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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