Analysis of Mary Jane
I'd fallen into a cesspool of despair
Many years after my interfuse,
A marriage if you like of poisonous ideals
Destined for failure from the start.
It was there at the very beginning
Things were not as they seemed,
I couldn't understand it at the time
But I had a suspicion about her...
Mary Jane she was very nice to me
And I just couldn't get enough of,
Her affection unbinding that is which I'd
Felt towards me before the onrush.
In her adolescent sway she'd wrought
About some horrid deceptions,
Something I should have picked up
I guess if not so blinded by love.
A misconception on my part in cracked
Truths and duly conceived notions,
Which would bring forth contagious canards
In her undefined terrors of vile deceits.
But I was racked with a guilty thirst
To aspire highly to her resonance,
Thus a romantic conquest would be met
Leaving room to condemn the past.
Then a fairytale aligned with bulletproof
Pathways we'd wholly welcome,
This magical paradise I had envisioned
Deeply lost in her fabulous bosoms.
Tho' that collide of emotions would
Only force upon me a cruel hex,
As I'd conjured up from myth a demon
Seeking my revenge unto her life.
O how everything fell apart after that
With her narcissist views on trust,
Mary Jane couldn't lie harshly enough
Cornering me in her asylum of rage.
The entrance to it was quite frightful
And the scenery within was damp,
Offering up its brutal secrets of bitter death
In lonesome pods filled with frogs.
I entered that place unprepared to
Crawl through a maze of horror,
It was tragically harrowing to witness
The sick amphibians without water;
There they were trapped in this hell
Struggling to breath in their cages,
Mary Jane had captured these creatures
To revive her ill body back to health.
If just I'd known what I was getting
Myself into at the very beginning,
Then I'd have wavered my brief commitment
That was at the time most pleasing.
But here I was in this hellish mess
Torn between morality and reality,
She'd offered no apology from the start
In her savage quest corrupting me.
Thereof the madness bequeathed
To me I swallowed in my embroil,
Whereupon the frontier of dark sins
I couldn't escape from but I'd tried.
At least I can say I did when rage
Got the better of me O brother,
Mary Jane she was evil in her movement
To meddle with nature as you know.
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Metre | 1100101101 1011011 010111110001 10110101 1111010010 101111 110011101 1110010010 1011110111 011101011 001011111 10110101 00010111 01110010 1011111 111111011 0001011101 10100110 11110101 0001101101 111110101 1011010100 1001010111 10110101 101001110 111010 11001011010 101001001 110110101 1010110101 1110111010 101011001 1110101101 10100111 1011011001 10010001011 010111110 001000111 1001110101101 0101111 11011011 1101110 11100100110 0101000110 1101011 100110110 101110110 1010110111 111111110 1011010010 1111011010 11101110 111101101 1010100010 11010100101 001010101 101001 111100101 101001111 110011111 111111111 101011110 10111100010 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,267 |
Words | 418 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 64 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on July 27, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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