Analysis of You Can't Teach Wisdom
Is it that I am coxed by a trail of lust discharged
By her taunt and odourless scents from pockets
Of trapping pours? Perhaps led astray by the eyes
Crystal visage of hidden motes and symmetry's grain?
To hunt their can be no prey, for I, like a comic book
Nemesis, need that molten spray twisting my arteries
And fusing my nerves to a timeless tortured funhouse
Of mirrored self doubt.
"They will come to you," my mother warms to warn,
Yet I hunt, and flee when I see their all.
And time does not forgive
The price of wisdom
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111011101 101011110 110101101101 10101101011 11111111110101 10011101101100 010111010101 11011 11111110111 1110111111 011101 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on September 28, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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