Analysis of Godzilla Headache in Reverse



more than anything i would like
to see the morning come up over the hills
and know that the haze that clutters these
rooms will dissipate
forever in the heat of the coming day &
more than anything i would like a river or
rivers of molten lava
to come crashing down this door that holds
this city captive &
more than anything i would like to sleep
under branches that wave in the wind
as if motioning to some unseen secret way
over there where
the morning comes up over the hills
like a star-spangled-banner type of sound
that repeats itself through all the valleys
covered with all the nervous laughter of
another morning
coming slowly
up over the hills.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKELBMCNOPB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111 11010111001 01101111 1110 01000110101 11101110101 1011010 111011111 11010 111011111 101011001 111001101101 1011 010111001 1011010111 1010111010 1011010101 01010 1010 11001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 635
Words 121
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 529
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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