Analysis of Janus

Ryan Blackborough 1984 (Adelaide)



She's a goddess, true poetry in motion.
The kind that has you sacrificing yourself in devotion.
Hypnotised, I move her sway.
With no question of acceptance, live to dance in her ballet.
I found a light, a beacon of perfection.
Then once I'm at worst I find it's lies and misdirection.


Scheme AABBAA
Poetic Form
Metre 10101100010 01111100010010 11101 111010101110001 11010101010 11111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 285
Words 56
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 221
Words per stanza (avg) 51

About this poem

Just a breakup poem. For context she was an actual ballerina.

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Submitted by RyanBlackborough on March 28, 2024

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For years he lived in a secret government facility. One day they found him and were like "what the fuck are you doing here?", and they shot him. Now he wanders the earth as a ghost, a poet ghost (not a ghost writer, he's way cooler than that). For some reason he can wear hats but if he walks through a wall or something (not like tables or small stuff) the hat falls off. He's lost a lot of nice hats. more…

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