Analysis of Purple, Orange, and Red
The sun is setting,
but forgetting will get us nowhere.
Failed attempts at peace dissolve ambition
and serve only as ammunition against this frail light.
Those sinking colors are magnificent,
ancient in their chaotic techniques,
Purple on the edges, Orange in parts,
and, at the heart, that prideful, bloody Red.
With them you go,
knowingly fading in time to that horizon,
leaving me only with the sun’s promise:
that bliss will come with the sunrise.
In this absence of light
past delight dissipates and gives way,
telling me to slip away, to forget the sun,
to run from all that I once knew.
I do not fear the darkness,
for it is less than the dawn;
there is no telling what tragedy lay in wait,
for the fate I once had is gone.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHICJKDLCMJNON |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 01110 10101111 1011101010 0110101001111 1101010100 100101001 1010101001 010111101 1111 100100111010 1011010110 1111101 011011 10110011 101110110101 11111111 1111010 1111101 111101100101 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 713 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 574 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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