Analysis of the chewed pencil (part II of "the suitcase")
your black pupil eclipses the keyhole
from which the only light engraves
i feel the wanton search by which
your eyes shutter and pendulates
for now, the only momentary
proof that life is here –
is the cold breath that accompanies me
as the darkness conforms to the presence
of the temperature and cellophane
the emptiness by which this suitcase contains
is what is left from this dismantled day
i see the chewed pencil that has stayed
and maybe it’s the only vestige of what we have
so author whatever essence is left un-scribed
for words that bruised like a million stones
are not the same as those a page can hold
but i realize this pencil has a broken point
and i snap it like my broken moans
the pencil that i grasped cannot write
but …………………. it can still erase
Scheme | XA XA BXB AXAC XXC AX XA XA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 111001001 1101011 11010111 111001 11010100 11111 1011101001 1010011010 10100010 0100111101 1111110101 110110111 0101010101111 11010101111 111110101 1101110111 111011010101 011111101 010111101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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