Analysis of City Squares



Claustrophobic city squares

Shadows through lanes
illuminated by cold filtered light
Antique like heads of marbled stone
Conjure up the past

Dreadful voids transformed
in warm lit beauty of the day
caught between the  surreal
and concrete demands of day

Faceless figures of faceless masses
enthroned puppets without strings
dance the dance of shadows
we stood on the threshold of our dreams

Opening streams beyond melancholy
within the void and interplay of form and time
pure in its nature of itself stoic and so free
beyond these painted words
that sings on tinted page

Secrets primal in their meanings
beneath the elements of appearance
come to life in the awareness
of its spontaneity
 


Scheme X XXXX XAXA XBXX CXCXX BXXC
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 111 010011101 01111101 10101 10101 01110101 101001 0010111 101011010 110011 10111 111011101 100101100 01010101101 1011010110011 011101 111101 10100110 0101001010 11100010 110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 695
Words 118
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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