Analysis of On the prospect of nothingness and vanishing, as such
It's noone's fault that things are the way they are, be it so
Except the First Cause of the Universe's solar systems
The father of God, the nothingness of the prematrix's soul
White noise of the white trash, singin' of origin, seeds and stems.
Blinkin' behind the whitest shade of pale, seein' no things
No shapes, sizes, no forms, no matter or substance of kings
No queens, no reproduced genes, no mitotic DNA on display
Imagine no dots of stars to connect, dead, unborn ends, no today.
No tomorrow, forgot about everything from yesterday's troubles
It's unformed grapes, it's buds burned to fairy smoke bubbles
If you can't follow this pretzel logic, pour on some mustard seed
Drink a coke or a fanta, your last breath is comin' to stop the bleed.
What it is? Somebody can't tell me, therefore it's nothing
Nothingness itself, now that's an entirely different story
It's an imaginary lack of all things seen, heard, tasted, smelled
A feeling is left, absence of all other things, conscious mind's still.
No more junkies, thieves or whores on this side of Milky's Way
That means no gangsters, thugs or states stealin' what's yours
All being itself is long gone as if it never, ever was there yesterday
A miracle that a hydrogen implosion caused vice-joy to the worlds.
by
RICHARD JOSEPH STEPHAN
c. August 8, 2014 Friday @ 12:12 PM
( written BULL'S EYE listenin' to EVERLAST "Tired," "Long Time," et al @ http://youtu.be/nqcZdK9oPgA?list=RDnqcZdK9oPgA )
Scheme | XXXX AABB CCDD EXXX BXBX XXXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1111110111111 010111011010 0101101001011 11101111100101 101010111111 11101111011011 11101111011101 01011111011111101 10101011011010 1011111110110 1111011010111101 1011010111111101 111101111110 10001111010010010 110100111111101 0101110111011011 1110111111111 11110111111 1100111111110101110 010010100010111101 1 101010 1101011 10111101101111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,453 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on August 10, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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