Analysis of Wake
Pillows soaked in drunken dreams
Dip the wandering mind in wine
Let desire lick fine lips once
Or twice more, before sleep
Comes to such a halt, my heels
Leave impressions in the dust
Sharp violet eyes, round as moon
Peer through the rosy glass
And hear it shatter sunlit prisms
Across the surface of a sea of bed sheets
As one body crawls out from under
The seductive waves, and wakes.
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Metre | 1010101 10100101 10101111 111011 1110111 1010001 11001111 110101 01110110 01010101111 111011110 0010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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