Analysis of tunneling memories
Tunneling Memories
By Rita Sabanal Laurencio
when you lie, i like you more,
you look cute, like a wounded leopard.
nature wasn't cruel, only the heart.
don't try to hold crooked branches,
a rose fire, yellow sky:
each of us has her own personal heaven
her own darknesses, wet tunnel of terrors
and factories of happiness
i like you, too, when you pay attention to your blessings,
when you kneel down to your fall-down,
when you stand and curl and cry...
silently in the dark
with your adventurous murky splash--arms open
dappled with amorous wildness.
oh, how i like you most
when you anchor your body in the light,
moving your eyelid back-and-forth,
tongue gulping limply with your own tenderness
akin to a leopard of my self-made god
perfectly glowing at the back of my corrupted flesh.
Scheme | AAXXX XBCXD XXB XCD XXXDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100100 11011 1111111 111101010 1010101001 11111010 0110101 11110110010 011110110 01001100 11111110101110 11111111 1110101 100001 110100101110 1110010 111111 1110110001 1011101 1101111100 01101011111 10010101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 3, 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on December 29, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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