Analysis of Paint With Mental Strokes
All we paint with mental strokes
becomes a self-portrait.
The grand murals on life's walls in us originate.
Through many observations
we strengthen every trait.
The valued things reinforce and then accentuate.
We are authors of our dreams
when asleep and awake.
No one can live in our heads absent our own intake.
What in others we reject
in self we don't abate.
Emotion charged behavior our defenses equate.
We are held by all we love
as well as all we hate.
What attracts or repels us will with self correlate.
Flame or ice runs in our veins
and moodiness connate.
Mirrored images appear from what we inculcate.
What we see is in the mind
and not outside the gate.
Perception is projection: a parallel comate.
Scheme | XAB XBB XCC XBB XBB XAB XBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 010110 011011101010 110010 1101001 010101010100 11101101 101001 11110101101011 1010101 011101 01010101001001 1111111 111111 101101111110 11110101 011 101000111110 1111001 011101 01010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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