Analysis of Sorry
I inadvertently broke sparkling glass panes; while playing cricket,
blurted a pathetic sorry to the outrageous occupants,
before they could take evasive action of slapping me on my face.
i tickled my little brother with curled strokes of pigeon feather,
said an innocent sorry when he was on the verge of erupting into a volley of abuse.
i woke my mother from tranquil realms of midnight sleep,
demanding ravishing items to devour as a feast,
uttered a condoling sorry; when she was on the pinnacle of gaining complete consciousness.
i gulped nightmarish amounts of scotch whisky,
swung my body like a person strangulated by uninhibited emotion,
whispered a down to earth sorry when the cops caught me red-handed.
i brusquely collided head on with the milkman carrying pails of fresh cream,
toppling them on the ground; with rivulets of milk radiating all over,
said iterative numbers of sorry; thoroughly condemning my irate act.
i sketched egg shaped cartoons of my balding math's teacher,
pasting the graffiti on the walls for all to relish,
blurted a timidly echoing sorry; when he raised the cane to whip my satiny flesh.
i fought like wild cats with my beloved in the day,
causing incorrigible agony to her throbbing heart,
kissed her forehead; saying a sorry which came from deep within my conscience,
to see her smiling with the same intensity with which she first wept.
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Metre | 101001101111010 1000101010010100 01111010101101111 1101101011111010 111001011110111001010101 111101101111 010100101010101 1001101111010011001100 1110011110 11101010110100010 1001111010111110 110010111011001111 10011011111100110 1100101101000101011 1111011110110 10001010111110 100100100101110111111 111111101001 100100010010101 101010010111101110 11010101010011111 |
Characters | 1,372 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 53 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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