Analysis of Indulge Me
like you do these charlatans
that claim to be
poets. they are not even
remotely related to the words
they pen.
like you do your exes
who, in spite of all the
hurt, are still welcome.
floating above thin sheets of ice.
gracious idiots.
like you do an artificial smile
that clings to the fallacy that invented it,
unknowingly. lingering
for a chance to
be real.
like you do love
not for others, but for the sake of
love. there is little
they truly know of
true love.
like you do the optimists
drowning in the light that
‘saves’. a bloody ruse to
draw in and quarter those incapable of
a satiable fix.
like you do these children and grandfathers
that think it best to ignore
middle-aged advice. they have no
way of knowing when they’re in
over their heads.
like you do the pompous and self righteous
the magnanimous, the assertive,
the verbose. pricks,
regurgitating emotion
on cue.
like you do the sun on
a cold day, the rain from
pastel grey skies. and everything
I can’t think of
in between.
like you do God.
Scheme | XXAXX XXBXX XXCDX EEXEE XXDEF XXXAX XXFXD XBCEX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 1111 1011110 010010101 11 111110 101110 11110 10011111 10100 11110101 111010010101 0100100 1011 11 1111 111011011 11110 11011 11 1110100 100011 101011 10010101001 011 111110010 1111101 10101111 1110110 1011 1110100110 001000010 011 1010 11 111011 011011 0111010 1111 001 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,184 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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