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
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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