Analysis of Crystal Caves
Within abyssal caverns who return
your curious gaze and suffer little light,
devouring all with such forbidden sight;
that Nietzschen maw with eyes of crystal burns.
Whilst beauties vast tempt avarice descent,
the riches held for greedy eyes alone.
For sight perceives the danger in the stone
and feeble hands cannot withstand the rent.
Despite the warning, comes a wand'ring soul,
whose judgement on a knife-edge sits at rest
between audacity and foolish whim.
And bravery will only take its toll
on whom curiosity always bests
the warnings, like some hypnotising hymn.
And deep beneath the safety of the sky,
where security in knowledge falls
within your scope of understanding all.
Or, at least, subscribing to this lie.
Who could, then, comprehend the depths below?
Eternal night to hide the terrors deep?
Where stone reflects the sounds of those it keeps
and creeping dread is all you ever know?
And thus the catch laid bare - a cruel design.
For all must test the balance of the knife.
Who braves the dark for knowledge of what comes?
Defend the world from that the earth confines?
If not, feign ignorance and chance a life,
and pray the price is paid not by your sons.
Scheme | XAABCDDCEXFEBF GXXGHXXHXIXXIX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 11001010101 01001111001 111111101 1101110001 0101110101 1101010001 0101100101 0101010111 1101011111 0101000101 0100110111 11010011 0101111 0101010101 101000101 011110101 111010111 111010101 0101110101 1101011111 0101111101 01011101001 1111010101 1101110111 010111011 1111000101 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,176 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 14 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
About this poem
This was a poem written as a sort of warning about the dangers of the unknown. I wanted to write a Petrachan Sonnet, and almost did, but ended up following a different rhyming pattern. I also find it flows best if one line reads into another without pauses.
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