Analysis of Venomous Bites And Stings



Serpents sinuously wind when encircling their prey.
Perniciously venomous
they paralyze and dismay.

Everything widens the breach once there is malevolence.
Longtime chronicles fracture
from a heartless prevalence.

Scorpions move peacefully until a confrontation.
Then there is a battle mode
with biting agitation.

An early dawn affection parallels a warm sunrise.
Immature torridity
leads to evident demise.

Africanized honeybees manufacture sweet delights.
Aggravated they'll attack
with killer stinging flights.

Weighing in the steelyard scales are the narratives of time.
The adverse must fall below
episodes of the sublime.


Scheme ABA BXX CDC EDE FXF GXG
Poetic Form
Metre 10111010011 1100 110001 1010011111 110010 1010100 1001100010010 1110101 110010 110101010011 011 1110001 10010010101 100101 110101 1000111010011 0011101 101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 610
Words 88
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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