Analysis of Play the radio on.
Play the radio on,
watch the melody warming up the room,
watch your shadow dance.
Condescendingly embraced by the light dull.
Rise to race the posthumous horse
as the raining drops caress your face
and the wind loudly whispers your fate.
Rise to race the posthumous firefly
as his fly wafted in thin air no more
and no bright seen in the socket of his eyes.
Rise to race the posthumous man
as the worms plays hide and seek in his throat
and his pride was forever gone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 1010010101 1111 1011011 11101001 101010111 001101011 111010010 1111001111 01110010111 11101001 1011101011 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
A brief reflection on death.
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