Analysis of That Which Returns to Wander
I could construe it to you
like cinnamon and apple and whiskey,
that which returns
to wander like liquefied ecstasy
beneath the velvet barbs of your tongue.
Would it appeal, then,
to word it like heavenly hypocrisy,
hoarse with my righteous scream of
that which wanders
to return to the pedestal called judgement,
called mercy —
whatever my lips care to puppet-spill now.
And if I said it were a vice,
not a transgression unto yourself,
would it whisper sweeter still:
that which strides
to suck what they called rot out of you,
to feed you your own spit, the regurgitated gasp of giving in?
(It trails down your chest
and buries in your bloodstream
like cinnamon and apple and whiskey,
that which returns to wander to wander to return to walk, to slither back to you, darling,
where we drink, we feed, we feast.)
Scheme | aBxbx xbxxxbx xxxxax xxBxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 1100010010 1101 110110100 010101111 11011 11111000100 1111011 1110 10110100110 110 1011111011 01111001 100101001 1110101 111 111111111 1111110111100 11111 010011 1100010010 11011101101011111011110 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
An antithesis piece, in a manner of speaking, about convincing someone to sin.
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