Analysis of Shapeless Uneasiness
when I see you, I wonder if you have died.
I notice discomfort, a pretty, pained smile.
I count on undercurrents; I see anguish in
tiles, ceilings, rivers carrying geese, but
not in your gaze, nor in your face, with
much sorrow buried under anger, without
viciousness; societal anger, pressed inside,
against the cervix, next to bone, aside a
gift for looking adorable. maybe a bite to
eat, vomit out, or mush a cigarette into;
maybe a sensuous affair, where you can’t
release, and it becomes painful obsession;
maybe oxygen is poison, so peccable, made
into underbrush and gnats and shapeless.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101111 11001001011 11110011100 1101010011 101110111 11010101001 100010010101 01010111010 1110010010011 11011100101 10010001111 01010110010 10100110111 011001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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