Analysis of Stooges Apotheosis
The tintinabulation of their skulls,
inchoate sons of Khaos, immortal fools,
resounded like cathedral bells
with peals ecclesiastical.
Incarnate nesience, demiurges crude,
their tantric trantrum apocalyptic scenes
wrecked monuments of rectitude
in carnage commically Orphean.
Turban, top hat, baseball cap;
no matter what the trappings,
they were divine impostors from
the bungled heart of things:
a cosmos inscrutably and violently dumb
where misrule calls the tune,
and laughter is a thunderclap
of the gods applauding ruin.
Scheme | XXXX AXAB CDED EBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 01111 11110101 110101 1100100 010111 110100101 1100110 01011 1011111 1101010 10010101 010111 0101010001 101101 010101 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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