Analysis of Corrosion
Your autumns like the moon always change
They never stay to a degree
Revealing to me a plan-
No, your hand like land
Time hewed to submit
And all I've writ
Is but a precipice on the verge of erosion
You spoke of stars,
But what of them?
They guide you night,
But only magnify my shroud
The one your autumns bring
The one your eyes enlighten
The cold veil is upon me
Like a raven obsessing over death
But I wait—
For I know
Your autumns change
And time erodes what it does not waste.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 11011001 0101101 11111 11101 0111 1101001011010 1111 1111 1111 1101011 01111 0111010 0111011 1010010101 111 111 111 010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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