Analysis of Timeless Tale



You are tragedy incarnate.
You're the whisper to the sky
That tore the world asunder
And you didn't need to try

Absolute opacity
at maximum capacity
Fill your mind up endlessly
With all the never meant to be

Wretched be this parasitic tag along you hide.
That filth you feed is evil, and it's time it fucking died.
Betrothed be to misery, In confidant confide.
Hells nowhere you chose to be, It's always there inside.

Welcome. I find you're here again.
Funny how I catch you creeping back in now and then.
Used to be you'd stay as long as I cared not to care.
Now that I look back I left a lot of myself there.

The weight of all this emptiness, alleviates the (w)hole.
Now the mind is paralysed, it must destroy the soul.
Siphoning your entity to nurture the abyss.
Taking away everything to only give you this.

Seas are awfully rough, I hope the maelstrom abides.
The swift and gentle bliss, of her chaotic tides.
She will sooner drown me than she shift a single drop.
But the journey isn't over cause the journey doesn't stop.

Careful! I'm only here to help.
I saw that you were wounded, thought I'd nurse you back to health.
You're not captured.
Though it seems I've been myself.

Have some things that you might need.
Guess just time if nothing else..
Perhaps you'll share some with me?
We'll keep it for ourselves.

You are mercy here incarnate
You're the whisper at our side
That lulled the world to slumber
So you didn't need to hide


Scheme ABCB DDDD EEEE FFGG HHII JJKK XXXX XXDX AECE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (78%)
Metre 11100010 1010101 1101010 0110111 100100 11000100 1111100 11010111 101101010111 11111100111101 11110001001 11111111101 10111101 1011111010101 1111111111111 111111101111 01111100010001001 10111110101 1001100110001 100110110111 111011101001 010101100101 1110111110101 101010101010101 10110111 11110101111111 1110 111111 1111111 1111101 0111111 1111001 11101010 10101101 1101110 1110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,451
Words 302
Sentences 28
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 29

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I was just trying something strange.

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Submitted by RyanBlackborough on March 28, 2024

Modified by RyanBlackborough on April 13, 2024

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Ryan Blackborough

For years he lived in a secret government facility. One day they found him and were like "what the fuck are you doing here?", and they shot him. Now he wanders the earth as a ghost, a poet ghost (not a ghost writer, he's way cooler than that). For some reason he can wear hats but if he walks through a wall or something (not like tables or small stuff) the hat falls off. He's lost a lot of nice hats. more…

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