Analysis of Wishful Thoughts Rippled
Ripped from visions: twisted broken nightmares,
I fluttered the realms of reality
across dark eyes; black and bruised with cold sleep,
her presence still lingered in my mind's stare.
Notorious flakes of fetid reason
roamed brand new hallucinations while drops
of imagination slapped against me.
Want laughed at insecurity's low curves,
I morphed into a deadly molecule's grin,
the mirror found my face: a mannequin;
manoeuvred by some strange quiet forces.
Wishful thoughts rippled down my cheek's marble
explosions of irregularity -
intimate experience slurped fishnet
dominance as Nietzschean pleasure wet
philosophy's sweet physiology.
All I longed for now was to return to dreams
where her pirouettes of language capture
every single breath released with fine love.
Scheme | XAXXXXAXBBX XAAXAXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101 11001110 0111101111 0101100111 0100111010 111001011 100101011 111111 110101011 0101110100 11111010 1011011110 010100100 100010011 10011101 110100 11111110111 100111010 10010101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 751 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 317 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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