Analysis of butterfly kisses
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
eyelashes
little cannibal butterflies
hide in dank
eye caves
stealing flutters from
vampire bats
i love the way i
taste to you
hearts flutter before
they die and so do
i
everybody dies alone
but sometimes it just
feels lonelier than others
i'll pass on the glass
case display
I don't like the way i
look with pins stuck
in me let's just keep
it in the oral tradition
and flutter
our separate
ways
© John Kennan 4-7-21
Scheme | XXXXXX AB XBA XXX XXAXXCXXX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 1010010 101 11 10101 101 11011 111 11001 11011 1 100101 10111 11110 11101 101 111011 1111 01111 10010010 010 1010 1 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 398 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 3, 3, 9, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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