Analysis of Mise En Scene
I'm laying
on a crooked metal frame.
Shadows from the wall, from the fan on
the ceiling; cast the
shading aside in but marks
on the pillows.
From cigarettes.
Welcome,
I have here a desk,
masters
of delaying likelihood;
we manage
to keep change away. For a while,
and a taste of the midnight moonshine.
Non-alcoholic.
We are
hooded figures
without hoods. That is to say,
mysteries
but not at the cost of our sight,
and we hold candlesticks
out in the open,
like in a trance.
Because we saw the things we wanted:
frameless paintings or
colorfully built doorways.
But none of this
makes you feel listened to. It's not your
turn, right now.
It will be eventually.
Does it mean anymore
than arbitration in letters, in sounds?
mouth this with me:
I like
the way nothingness feels.
Scheme | XXXXXXXXXAXXXXX XAXXXXXXXBXXBXC BXCXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) |
Metre | 110 1010101 11011011 01010 1001011 1010 101 10 11101 10 101010 110 11101101 0011011 1010 11 1010 0111111 100 111011101 01110 10010 1001 011101110 1101 10011 1111 111101111 111 11101000 11101 101001001 1111 11 011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 15, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Written on July 11, 2021
Submitted by joed.03185 on September 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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