Analysis of Brittle Alien
The conformity of city life
is abandoned with a sharp breath-
shocking the mind’s eye.
A grey, cold sky becomes darker
and darker as time’s brittle fingers
scratch the reasons why we live
in a place so alien; reality’s marker:
Thoughts race madly while spoken words
confuse adrenaline pumping faster
than the eye can blink.
Radio language chokes out fragile smiles
while the soul’s minds relax to think
of what to construct from the future’s miles.
Energy creates the force of life and death
that surrounds the splintered air,
I close my swollen eyes
and still see the confusion
of harsh simplicity.
Scheme | XAX BXXBXBC DCD AXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001001101 10101011 10011 01110110 010111010 1010111 0011100110 11101101 0101001010 10111 101011101 10110111 1110110101 10001011101 1010101 111101 0110010 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on August 14, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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