Analysis of Frantic Fluctuations
Hands shake dimensions across the room's shades
as reflections of winter crash like glass:
twisted shards of another dead life trapped,
images of delusion - illusions
capture decomposition as laughter
scrapes the throat's escape; gargled attitudes
that scream nightmares into ghosts of decay.
Lost, found, lost once more in despair's bitter
confusion: streams of cool rippled manic
depression which pulls hair into mad shapes.
I could have murdered myself but it all
seemed so far away - this old blackboard scrape
that screeches insanity through love's breath.
Sparkled torture throws spikes of anguish out
to touch all who slip into wild visions;
oblivion crunches spirits under
its tattered feet while sinister looks grin
in slow manoeuvres; chains of circled hate.
And the night coughs stars into wide blue eyes;
flutters of broken aspirations spill
vomit from lashes which curl defeat's edge,
it's all plastic - melted complexity
that burns the sad soul's delicious colours;
frantic fluctuations of everyday.
Scheme | AXXBCXDCXX XXXXBCXXXXXXAD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001011 1010110111 1011010111 1001010010 100010110 10101110 111011101 111110110 0101111010 0101110111 111101111 111011111 1100100111 1010111101 1111101110 0100101010 1101110011 01111101 0011101111 101100101 101101111 1110100100 110110101 100101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 415 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on September 22, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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