Analysis of FEAR
I could tell you a story about the first star and how she fell too far from her lover the moon millions of light years away. I could tell you a story about a young boy called fate who tried to hide from the world and himself, or I could tell you a story about Fear who wore a hat of despair.
Fear is for the cold shoulder ed when we act like we've got the world placed precisely on our shoulders fearing nothing but ourselves.
Fear is for the earth when it boils and we feel ourselves getting cocooned in it like the heat which comes with madness.
Fear is for the long night when the sun hides for years and little ones are born, living and dying all in darkness as the grim reaper walks in the mask of night.
Fear once came as a Knight on a cold night that lasted a thousand generations, Kings froze to death in their castles, servants ravaged and the blood lust of warriors swoop the entire village. Women smouldered their babies with warm wrappers and wept tirelessly, as their tears froze on their faces rather than see them starve.
In that darkness, fear walked the earth for the first time in human form, swept through kingdoms riding on their horses of dread hunting with their pack of anguish, big as the first giant that walked this earth, Until Audacity, with a blind dashing perplexity swung his sling in temerity, and landed the stone of on the head of fear, knocking fear out cold.
Fear rose, wavered, for he had lost his will, his ego and his sight. He still staggers till this very day, weak but more cunning, listening for our vulnerabilities, waiting to sink his dagger in the heart of humanity. Fear still is, but it lingers.
O'neal
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Metre | 1111010010110111111010011011101111101001011111111101001111110100111101101 111011011111110110101101010101001 111011110110011010110111110 11101110111101011110010101010110100111 111101101111001001011110110101000111100100101010111011100110011111110101111 0110110110110101111010111011101111101101101111010100101100100111001000100111011110111 111011111111001111101110111110100110001001011110001101001111110 01 |
Characters | 1,691 |
Words | 320 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 164 |
Words per line (avg) | 39 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
About this poem
The Poem centers on fear which in this poem is portrayed as a physical being, and a force of nature.
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Written on March 25, 2022
Submitted by ogaga.oghenemine on March 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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