Analysis of Neon Wings
The city's an illusion,
a quilt work of hopes and dreams.
Just a congenial facade,
where nothing's quite what it seems.
Sex emerges from its cocoon,
flexing its neon wings at night.
And the bars open like petals,
as fledgling morals take flight.
Truths are shadows in the dark,
and barely visible here.
Where even indelible smiles
fade and often disappear.
It's a place missing a soul,
that has lost track of its heart.
And within the light of day,
the illusion falls apart.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0101010 0111101 1001001 1101111 10101101 10110111 00110110 1101011 111001 0101001 11001001 101001 1011001 1111111 0010111 0010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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