Analysis of Substitution
Eviscerate my being! Distort my face!
Bring me closure to my ego; replace!
Seizure in dark games through which we interlace,
Beckoning the reaper's embrace.
Subvert my empathy!
Break me into colluded ecstasy!
Mold me in your image of apathy!
Put me in a daze of senseful apogee!
If only I could help You experience the same...
If only I could put out what had went aflame...
If only I could rid you of your own self blame...
My ultimate goal- to personify your game..
Knowing I belong on greater stages;
I set out to share a seat among your stations!
As I'm marching alongside your pages,
I'm taunted by the echoes of ages,
mocked by divine wages.
Taxing are the paths to your way.
My will's faltering, hope's grey,
mind's in a state so risqué.
Tell me, is this the price that I must pay?
"Fractious paranoia vying to supplant.
Vying to take over, to ruin your descant.
To kill that which would lay bare, the one which I shan't.
And destroy the altar to which I hum and I chant."
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Metre | 0101100111 111011101 1001111101 1000101 011100 1101010100 1101101100 110011110 1101111010001 110111111101 110111111111 11001101011 1010111010 111110101110 1110011110 1101010110 110110 10101111 1110011 100111 1111011111 1001010101 10111011011 1111111011111 0010101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 3, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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