Analysis of Unhinged



Do Not Enter
Yet curiosity picks at the rusty locks
Encasing that eldritch tomb
Where decaying love lays strewn

Creak and crack it stands ajar
Peering I rake the desolate void
Where mouldy memories hang from hooks
And whimpering joy peeps from crannies and crooks

Each wary step raises moon dust
A swirling black ballerina
Engulfing gladness in gloom
Soot and ashes covering the room

Feelings fade in tattered scrapbooks
Delight in a pile is shrivelled and torn
A blackened mirror shudders to bare
The gnarled image now I wear

Gravely I turn to leave this wretched place
Silently mocked by misery and woe
In the shadowy haze I stop and look around
Searching for sanity in the Lost-and-Found


Scheme XXAX XXBB XXAA BXCC XXDD
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Metre 1110 10100110101 11101 1010111 1011101 101101001 110100111 01001111001 11011011 0101010 010101 101010001 1010101 010011101 010101011 0110111 1011111101 1001110001 001001110101 10110000101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 673
Words 119
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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