Analysis of Blood Moon Arising
Memories stir, almost visible,
A vague quiet knot in the pit
Cold chills in the still boneyard
An ominous feeling inside of it
Apparitions stir, uneasy
A glimpse of a flicker soon gone
Time just keeps on creeping on
With a creepiness all its own
There's a full blood moon arising
We're all dreaming the strangest dreams
It feels like a sackful of bruises
Pulling gently, slowly apart at the seams
Two days early, Halloween ghosts
Came for Bucky's head
The following Easter morning
Our father couldn't raise from the bed
Vague as a hint, subtle as air
A whisper felt in the souls of all
A soundless echo inside a cage
Resounding inside a dungeon wall
There's a full blood moon arising
We're all dreaming the strangest dreams
It feels like a sackful of bruises
Pulling gently, slowly apart at the seams
It might as well have been Mom's own life
Ending on that April day
It was never the same after that
She withered, and faded away
Who are these naked phantoms
Arriving unannounced at the door?
Poverty is no mere state of mind
In the hearts of the spiritually poor
There's a full blood moon arising
We're all dreaming the strangest dreams
It feels like a sackful of bruises
Pulling gently, slowly apart at the seams
I was five years old, and dancing
On an old eight-millimeter reel
An apparition, a wisp, phantasmic
How my memories feel
They smile and laugh, they taunt and they haunt
They're here, they're gone, they never leave
They dwell on the edge of awareness
They hide in the air we breathe
There's a full blood moon arising
We're all dreaming the strangest dreams
It feels like a sackful of bruises
Pulling gently, slowly apart at the seams
© John Kennan 2-4-18
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Metre | 10011100 01101001 110011 1100100111 0101010 01101011 1111101 10100111 10111010 11100101 11101110 10101001101 1110011 1111 01001010 1010101101 11011011 010100111 01100101 010010101 10111010 11100101 11101110 10101001101 111111111 1011101 111001101 11001001 1111010 01001101 100111111 00110100001 10111010 11100101 11101110 10101001101 11111010 11111001 1010011 111001 110111011 11111101 111011010 1100111 10111010 11100101 11101110 10101001101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,651 |
Words | 300 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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