Analysis of Melodies And Butterflies
The melody is ringing in my ears
It’s deafening. It’s beautiful.
She sang to me at the start of creation.
Her voice still rings in my head.
She tells the stories I write, and becomes my muse.
Why does she only sing to me?
Nobody else could hear the ringing.
They listen, and await her voice, but nothing.
Is this some sick joke?
No, it can’t be.
She made me for this.
The melody is bursting my eardrums.
The blood creates a beautiful pattern on the floor.
A trillion butterflies swirl in the hues of red.
The melody guides them home.
I am home to them.
They crawl back in my ears and whisper dark things in the dead of night.
I’m the only one that can hear.
I scream the melody, hoping someone else might listen.
Nobody responds.
The melody is corrupting my soul.
It’s too loud, but she doesn’t listen to me.
Not anymore.
All I hear is the melody.
It hurts.
The butterflies eat my mind and cause it to rot.
Why won’t they just leave me alone?
They are screaming in my head.
The sounds become one.
Everything is blurry now.
The butterflies won’t let me stop thinking.
The melody won’t let me think.
The melody and the butterflies burn me.
But they know I love the flame.
Scheme | ABCDEFGGHFIAJDKLMNCOPFJFQRSDCTGUFV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110011 11001100 11111011010 0111011 110101100111 11110111 1111010 11000101110 11111 1111 11111 010011011 0101010010101 01010100111 0100111 11111 1110110101100111 10101111 1101001011110 101 0100101011 1111111011 101 11110100 11 01011101111 11111101 1110011 01011 101101 010111110 01001111 0100001011 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,187 |
Words | 254 |
Sentences | 34 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 899 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 222 |
About this poem
A piece about being a prodigy, the stress that comes with it, and what a great mind looks like when the world shatters it on the ground.
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