Analysis of The Astringent Winds of Aggression



A kiss of sun is all I need,
To rise above your bare blanket,
That suffocates me for months on end.
As my kin and I are exhumed,
The world is drenched in radiance once more.

Your gray barren landscape,
Is now brilliantly replete with life and color,
As a result of my development.
My soft pink pigments give off a stifling luminosity,
That recently penetrated your desolate mantle of vacancy.

I take pride in my lustrous yellows,
As they quickly pierce your dismal landscape.
I pursue you, to the top of the garden wall,
Where my colors slither across the railing,
Entwined around your frozen icicles.
As a snake across a sunny rock,
I soak in the warmth of the sun,
Spreading a sensation of hope,
With my uplifting assortment of purples.

I shiver as you greedily whip away my pollen,
Into your twirling winds of aggression.
You barge in suddenly,
An unsought visitor.
Your bleak landscape incarcerates my radiance,
As I am, against my will,
Buried in a layer of your dreariness, yet again.

I fear not for myself,
But for the others,
As they sleep in reminiscence of my color.
My heartwarming soft colors always prevail,
Each year, my pigments grow brighter and my petals bigger.
But until a kiss of sun disinters my soul,
My true beauty remains concealed,
Under your truly nefarious spirit,
Winter.


Scheme ABXXX CDXAE XCXXFXGXF GGEDXXX XXDXDXXBD
Poetic Form
Metre 01111111 11011110 1111111 11101101 0111010011 11101 111000111010 1001110100 11110110101 11001001100101100 111011010 111011101 101110110101 11101001010 0101110100 101010101 11001101 10001011 1110010110 11011100101110 0111011010 110100 11100 1110101100 1110111 10001011100101 11111 11010 11100101110 110110101 11110110011010 1010111111 11100101 10110010010 10
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,265
Words 229
Sentences 13
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 9, 7, 9
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 206
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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