Analysis of She Had An Eye



A glass eye surgically implanted.
Purely cosmetic.
They did not dare tell me the truth.
Purely plastic.

In a blazing fire the night grew older.
Over time, the progress higher.
Ambitions aside, I tried.
Now, forever sealed are my eyes.

Adhesively shut.
Never to be opened.
Like smoke filled airways.
Not a breath to exhale.

It was not my fault.
It was not that bad.
There was no real use,
I never truly opened my eyes before.

Melted plastic is a lot to lose,
but searing eye sockets are a lot to gain.
On the brink, I am shocked to say
a musical suite made me smile.

I heard the music,
but not that of the mourning violinist.
No, it was but of the dancing parade.
The one of my grave.


Scheme XAXA BBXX XXXX XXXX XXXX AXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0111000010 10010 11111101 1010 00101001110 1010110 0100111 10101111 11 101110 1111 101101 11111 11111 11111 11010101101 101010111 11011010111 10111111 01001111 11010 11110100010 1111101001 01111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 660
Words 131
Sentences 20
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Zomby

Bleeeh. I really want to cough up a lung, literally. Barfing sunshine would be quite the droll task, wouldn't it? And, hey, what's wrong with being plastic? When you do a line of coke and start bouncing off the walls, it's all the more adrenalicious. more…

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