Analysis of Secret Lesion
Couples standing side-by-side
Can be many miles apart:
Long ago some great divide
Shattered fusion of the heart
Outwardly they are as one
But internally in shreds
Woven webs, no longer spun,
Are forsaken over-spreads
Perfunctory performance
Camouflages make-believe
Ostentatious conformance
Gives relationships reprieve
Propinquity concurrence
Substitutes as cohesion
Habitual contingence
Conceals the secret lesion
Couples who onetime did coax
Come to lament their duet
Conspirators of the hoax
Fabrications they abet
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF ECDC GHGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010111 1110101 1011101 1010101 1001111 1010001 1011101 1010101 0100010 1101 010010 101001 1010 101010 01001 0101010 1011111 1101101 0100101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 499 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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