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
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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Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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