Analysis of Soused
When lovers play the villains
And make the earth their hell
Flooding with gushing rivers
Every pilgrims trail
They gambol with irreverence
Like roulette fully loaded
Wearing down the very soul
Until it is eroded
“Bad is the world
and all will come to naught”*
When such ill dealings
Must be seen in thought
So this motley pair
Two rivers of odd ilk
Clean their bloody knives
On heirloom jasmine silk
Disgraced they'll turn away
Only to return as water does
Guaranteed to fall to the Earth
It so forcefully loves
And gambits marshal awesome things
Terrible in truth
Sousing all the greater things
We gained in days of youth
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 010111 1011010 100101 1110100 1011010 1010101 0111010 1101 011111 11110 11101 11101 110111 11101 11101 011101 101011101 0111101 111001 01010101 10001 110101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 509 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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