Analysis of The Drunken Kite



How it dazzles in my eye's mind,
and how it slips into her cries.
With swoops and swirls and swoops and swirls,
Into the evening that burns.

Diving into an evening that sears with brightness,
That shies into an opening wound.
Feel the winds of change that soothe,
The burns and binds and screaming alive.

Soaring to new worlds, ideals and...
A laugh to fathom the life reckless.

So now as to hold his above,
Bleeding clouds of red amidst long skys.
To know only its truth.
A denial of pleasure and fractal relief,
So as to embrace a tease of tears.
This pleasure seeks as it swirls within,
A multi-coloured dome of blurriness,
Constantly driving higher,
To undermine a high.

To think, to soar, to achieve,
A bleeding door that does not exist.
So why do we roar to open
a door that we can never open...


Scheme XAXX BXXX XB XAXXXXAXX XXCC
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111 01110101 11010101 0101011 100111011110 110111001 1011111 010101001 10111010 011100110 11111101 101110111 111011 001011001001 111010111 110111101 01010111 1001010 11001 1111101 010111101 11111110 011111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 779
Words 148
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 2, 9, 4
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 03, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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