Analysis of Dominus Noctis



Quietly thank the passing Lilitu
with your sleeping expressions
no time for us tonight
to intertwine and take possession
no ages-old lesson
to be imparted through
your spinal column
intense waves of passion.
Was it your great grandmother
who said that she came from the Equator
in that dragon's voice
and did she defile
you on the bedroom floor
at age four
deflowering you
forever
fearing hell and damnation
was right around the corner
around the moving mist
the sightless
right through the door
not slightly reassuring
when the waking paralysis
starts taking its hold
so cold
the cacaphony
oh, won't you just kill me?
but death never nears
the devil fears me


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Poetic Form
Metre 10010101 1110010 111101 100101010 110110 110101 11010 011110 111110 1111110010 01101 0111 11011 111 11 010 1010010 1101010 010101 01 1101 110010 10100100 11011 11 01 111111 11101 01011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 631
Words 113
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 29
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 541
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Submitted on August 25, 2014

Modified on April 16, 2023

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Wesley Morin

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