Analysis of No Holdbacks
There were times when I held dogmatically back my sleep; even though my disastrously beleaguered eyes felt like forever popping out of their brutally tyrannized sockets,
There were times when I irretrievably held back my smiles; even though the corners of my lips miserably ached to profoundly blossom; till times beyond majestically glorious eternity,
There were times when I irrevocably held back my hunger; even though the thunderously hedonistic reverberations in my stomach; woke even the most truculent of demons in the cosmos; from aisles of deep siesta,
There were times when I stubbornly held back my triumph; even though the Sun of blistering success; came on my doorstep to uninhibitedly kiss my impoverished feet,
There were times when I torturously held back my creativity; even though unsurpassable cloudbursts of blissfully fructifying fantasy; royally sprouted from
every conceivable cranny of my mind,
There were times when I uncaringly held back my tears; even though countless mirrors of hapless desperation shattered to horrendously maiming nothingness; inside
the dormitories of my weeping soul,
There were times when I resolutely held back my yawns; even though the insurmountably unceasing bedspreads of laziness; slowly and slowly lulled each of my senses into a soporific lullaby,
There were times when I devoutly held back my aspirations; even though the rhapsodically ebullient fireball of optimistic dynamism; wholesomely circumscribed every ingredient of my effervescent blood,
There were times when I fanatically held back my bravado; even though the winds of unflinching fearlessness; indefatigably perpetuated me to fight for justice till the very last bone down my spine thrived,
There were times when I deliriously held back my frolic; even though the impeccably mischievous child in me; torturously asphyxiated to a prematurely decrepit end,
There were times when I barbarously held back my desires; even though the titillations of insatiable sensuality in the pores of my skin were more poignantly unconquerable; than streaks of regally white lightening in scarlet sky,
There were times when I ungainly held back my philosophies; even though the unprecedented urge to disseminate the essence of gloriously unfettered mankind; spawned like an insuperable fortress in every comprehensible cranny of my countenance,
There were times when I baselessly held back my dreams; even though the caverns of unfathomably effulgent excitement; timelessly burgeoned in every rivulet of crimson blood; that ecstatically encircled my brain,
There were times when I nonsensically held back my freedom; even though every dormitory of my mind; body and victorious soul; wanted to timelessly kiss the ultimate apogees of tranquilly coruscated paradise,
There were times when I immutably held back my poetry; even though the profoundly illuminated lanterns of bountiful sensitivity; caressed a miraculously new
high in the fabric of my life,
There were times when I bigotedly held back my fists; even though the urge to defend myself against the treacherously rapacious and indiscriminately marauding
monsters; rose beyond the heavens in my diminutively nimble body,
There were times when I intransigently held back my melody; even though the uncurbed desire to effusively blend with the colors of panoramic nature; passionately drifted from each word that I spoke,
There were times when I intractably held back my breath; even though the invaluable instinct of sustaining life; tempestuously pounded like the entire force on this earth; upon my despairingly aggrieved and strangulated lungs,
But at no time of my parsimoniously truncated life could I ever hold back the beats of my endlessly fervent heart; could I ever hold back the wave of unshakable romance that it perennially culminated into; could I ever dream of holding back my immortal love for you and only you; O! Pricelessly divine beloved.
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Metre | 10111101001111011010001011101010111100110 10111001001111101010111100011010101101010001000100 101110100011110101010100010011011001100110001011111 101111001111010101110001111111110101 10111111101001011111001100100101 100010010111 101111111110110101100101011001010001 010011101 101111001111101010101110010010111110010110 10111010111010101010101010101001011000100110101 10111010001110101010110101101001111101010111111 101111111101010010010010110100100100101 10111111101010101101001000111101100111110011000101 10111010111010010100100110100101100001011111110010001001011100 10111111111010101110101100100111011010001011 1011111111010110010011110001001101110100111110 101111111100101001001001011000100010010001 10010111 10111111111010110110101010001000010 101010100111010 101111111100101010101010011010101010100010111111 1011111111101001001010101110100101111011101011 1111111101111011011110010111101101101000111010001000111101110110101110101110101 |
Characters | 3,916 |
Words | 605 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 141 |
Words per line (avg) | 26 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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