Analysis of The Day I Met You
Our eyes connected, but I couldn't feel them.
Even the tree that stood close held more sentient than your faceless wounds - you knocked.
The hollow sound was as empty as your eyes.
The dark sap spilled from your cracks
Chipping by chipping, you fell apart into detail.
Slowly you become hoarse, but never old.
Your face, barren of want or intention, unlike all.
Wounds splintered open with cries.
Cold whirling howls cut and cut:
Cutting into the wind flow,
Circling the darkness,
Trapping all-stars,
Disrupting the settlement.
Though they were beautiful, they weren't human.
The roots came around and sunk -
Sunk into the abysses of eternal homely depth,
That was left open on your face.
Where emotions were left to rot (if any existed)
Without a purpose or meaning.
Your eyes were unsolvable black suns;
Setting into a scab that you'll scratch artlessly.
And though they would not bleed, they'd ooze.
Ooze out anything that'd qualify your humanity.
Leaving none for the actual human eye.
Petrified in pain of uncertainty gaped and gasped.
With lifeless brown eyes, you held a child's smile that curved your eyes and features.
Meaningless and incomprehensible.
That was your face the day I met you.
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Metre | 101010111011 10011111111110111 01011110111 0111111 1011011010101 1010111101 1110111010011 1101011 1101101 1001011 100010 1011 0100100 11010011010 0110101 101011010101 11110111 10100111110010 01010110 110010011 1001011111 01111111 1110101010100 10110100101 100110100101 11011110111111010 100000100 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,276 |
Words | 243 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 954 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 218 |
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