Analysis of The Silent War



It starts with shadows emerging
Inside
In my mind
This is what I find
As it converts me into a breeding box
For evil moths
That flapper and sloths
Their way through my old rusty cogs

With lies and murmurs
I can’t explain
The pain it engraves
Into my brain

Battling in the fragmented remains
On a deep engraved decaying frame
As this darkness progressively deceives me
With enchanting whispers
That feeds me

Crushing a hollow mold
Of a man
That use to see the world
Through eyes now dark
And somber
As it wonders this plane
No longer

With empty shoes
Of what use to be
A child so free
And full of life
That now imprisons me

I cannot explain
This light that shines
To slowly crack
The darkness that blinds

A hollow shell I use to be
Now filled with light that sets me free

If only this feeling can remain
As I close my eyes
And pray away this pain
To forgive once more
What has been forgiven before

I open my eyes
With the birth of the sun
To find myself again
On the run
From the darkness
That has already begun

As a giant war
Inside my mind
Emerges behind the
Sun that shines
Its light so dull
With only whispers
That fills with darkness
That hurts and blisters

As cries are heard
From beyond this frame
That cracks
And murmurs
Till nothing remains
But a hollow and empty shell of stone
That use to be some skin and bone

Of a living man
Now on the run
Resting his temple on his gun
So stay a while and witness the fun


Scheme XXAABXBB CDBD EFGCG XHXXIDI XGGXG DJXX GG DKDLL KMXMNM LAXJXCNC XFXCEOO HMMM
Poetic Form Tetractys  (42%)
Metre 1111010 01 011 11111 11101010101 1101 11001 11111101 11010 1101 0111 0111 1000010001 101010101 1110010011 101010 111 100101 101 111101 1111 010 111011 110 1101 11111 0111 0111 110101 11001 1111 1101 01011 01011111 11111111 110110101 11111 010111 10111 11101001 11011 101101 11101 101 1010 1101001 10101 0111 010010 111 1111 11010 11110 11010 1111 10111 11 010 11001 1010010111 11111101 10101 1101 10110111 110101001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,355
Words 278
Sentences 1
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 5, 7, 5, 4, 2, 5, 6, 8, 7, 4
Lines Amount 65
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on October 29, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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