Analysis of Fault-line



Butterfly- footed,
locked above the barrel
in your new age saintly pose.

Does this mean you're free
from the public gun when it fires entire folk lives.
Some sing "ad infinitum", I am a house sized door
where there's sin and smiting

A fatal loft racing through the Attacama,
wastelands with brown dunes that dye
stainless marrow, crack stainless steel heels.

Some warn - he has Viking fists,
and loves like a bludgeoning riot
feels like a makeshift heaven
the eerie tall dream bringing vertigo.

Yet noone speaks for him, in his favour
speaks of silent tremors - anxiety,
flashing in his clouds, feral lightning,
neon blue lamps bleeding in the basement.
the count, the dark transylvanian Lord,
each night he comes as a horseman,
with hooves drawn like zeros
kicking pleasantries out and about

He goes helter-skelter,
collapsing stars incinerate
He goes into his hell, regretfully
Wears it reluctantly like a bad holiday sweater.

And when it happens will you remain -
butterfly footed, lock your wings on the barrel
sing I can be free, in your new age, saintly pose.


Scheme XAB CXXD XXX XXED CCDXXEBX FXCF XAB
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 101010 0111101 11111 10101111001011 1110100110111 11101 010110101 111111 101011011 1111101 011010010 110110 010111010 11111011 1110100100 100111010 1011100010 010111 11111010 111110 101001001 111010 0101010 1101110100 1101001011010 011101101 10101111010 111110111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,075
Words 206
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 3, 4, 8, 4, 3
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

Deals with how preconceived notions from those around you can affect whoever is in love with you or is taking an interest in you.

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Written on December 03, 2021

Submitted by mahatabryan6 on June 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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