Analysis of The Form of Strands
A deceitful knot entangles my skull –
Creating harrowing disorder
As I recklessly attempt to release its vice.
A grip both tenuous and firm
On its anchor and reality.
My endeavour is distracted
By some nameless wordiness
In the shape of a circle.
Perhaps I’ve been here before?
Perhaps not.
Time is fast and blurry –
Such twisting of fibres this late in the forenoon
Is far from ideal.
The backside of the gradient
Is slightly less clumsy.
Eventually, it’s out
The preceding interlaced roughness
Transformed into ordinary silk.
Perhaps I will keep it tidy now?
Perhaps not…
A case can always be made
For its sinuous captivation.
And its meddlesome ensnarement
Is familiar, after all.
Yet, one can never be too careful
When earnestly wrenching on that
Which protects the only thing
That will ever truly be mine.
Scheme | axbxcxbaxD cexxcxxxeD xecxaxxe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101111 010100010 111000110111 01110001 1110010 10101010 11101 0011010 0111101 011 111010 1101111001 11101 0110100 110110 0100011 00100110 01011001 011111101 011 011111 11101 011001 1010101 111101110 11001011 1010101 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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