Analysis of Obscure Birth
Born white
Translucent and obscene
A creature loathed
Despised and unseen
Digesting debris
and reviving this earth
Yet no one awaits
My obscure birth
Rarely do I feel the sun
For Terra-firma
And I are one
Dark and deep
Is where I dwell
Waiting for death
A sharp beak to impale
My frail frigid body
Then to blackness
I will sail
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHGIJKLDML |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 010001 0101 01001 01001 001011 11101 1011 1011101 11010 0111 101 1111 1011 011101 111010 1110 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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