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.


Scheme ABXXCCD XXXXXD BXXXAX
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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