Analysis of Strange Entrées
I have eaten strange things since I was twelve: the memories of life—the serenity of sorrow—frog legs, kites upon winds as they carry my pride. I have eaten mourning—teal-hazel concerns—reality blends with unreality. (Shifts in brains, the eloquence of pain, soft crystals alarming systems.) Those strange things … oysters in misery sauce; just so swift it destroys; sunlight blues, those first few breaths, eating the strangeness of sounds.
I have eaten serenity, its melodic jazz, inconsistent lines, upon blues, into auras, jingling into cabinets—those words like confetti, drawers of expression, deeper ecstatic dungeons; as strange creatures, bronzed in trials, cooked partway, partly raw; to eat life, as rising specimens.
I become the stranger. I eat strange islands. I have eaten strange things. (By purpose to sing. By regret to forfeit.)
These strange items … stranger occurrences … to eat existence, to eat skies … much is time activity.
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Metre | 11101111110100110010011011101111101111101011001101101001010100111100101011110010011111011111111001011 111001001010101010110111011001110101101010010101110101011101111110100 1010101111011101111011101110 1110100100110101111110100 |
Characters | 975 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 189 |
Words per line (avg) | 37 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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