Analysis of Consumption
J.C. Schweitzer 1980 (Pennsylvania)
In a time of great sadness, I had become weak with forgetting.
My heart, and soul began to feel increasingly empty.
The coyote came upon me in my slumber, and in his sly way, promised to fill my emptiness.
He closed his mouth upon my face.
All there was to breath was that of his consumption.
He did not let go until my emptiness had been filled with ferment.
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Once he let go, I awoke craving only that which he consumed…
Lacking for a time, all desire to be filled with the breathe or nourishment, of light, or life itself.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011110110111010 11010111010010 0010101101100011110111100 11110111 111111111010 11111011100111101 1 1111101101011101 1010110101111011100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 7 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
a tail of forgetting and remembrance
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Written on February 28, 2022
Submitted by jschweitzeriii on February 28, 2022
Modified by jschweitzeriii on February 28, 2022
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