Goethe
Goethe
A portrait of Beauty:
The air around her is intoxicating.
She drowns your soul
in a green "veil of sweet darkness."
Her eyes are seductive
as she devours your flesh--
"A monster, forever devouring,
regurgitating, chewing and gorging."
Dragging you to her sacrificial altar,
she laughs with a witches' cackle
as pleasure becomes pain
and pain becomes pleasure.
Around her ankles--a snake,
glowing in the dark.
Hidden behind her back
a dagger for your heart.
She touches your lips--
entwined in "The Last Kiss of all,
cruelly sweet."
As monsters beget monsters...
from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"
About this poem
The poem is a biographical fantasy.
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Written on March 09, 2015
Submitted by learnott1958 on December 31, 2022
Modified on March 09, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XXAA BXXB XXXX XXXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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