Analysis of Himself changing
The sun nourished his deep black skin and drowned him in light.
He walked through the city followed by people shouting at him through car windows and pedestrian eyes staring into his tall soul.
He carried a hugh gift for his mother into his yellow taxi and drove away at a slow speed.
The skull ribbons in his hair matched his black and white bubble jacket.
His dog and dark skinned kid ran towards him as he pulled the gift out of his freshly bumped taxi.
His mother opened the gift and it was a giant nativity covered in his addition of hay and a neon green light up star.
He went to the bathroom and brushed his eyebrows with mascara because his aging white hairs were starting to bother him and his kid had questioned his race for the first time while they decorated the tree.
He hadn't been able to surprise him on Army leave properly because he was on the toilet when he came home from grandma's so the day hadn't played out as memorably as he had expected.
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Metre | 0110111101101 11101010110101111100010011001111 1100111110011101001011011 0110011111011010 11011110111110111110110 1101001011010010010010101100101111 1110101111010011101101011010111101110111110001 1101101011110110001111010111111101101111000111010 |
Characters | 968 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 96 |
Words per line (avg) | 23 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 771 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 182 |
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