Analysis of The Orchid
Should I live in a imaginary world,
constructed by the grace of Heaven's light?
My past has laid before me an infinite nightmare
of fairytales, I only wish to dream in reality.
I now wake up
and look in your eyes
I couldn't see light
I think i've gone blind
Maybe i'm lost
take me away from this vast ocean of death
taken from me was my breath
so much beauty, lies in the eyes of her sparkling tranqulity
I take a razorblade
the only serenade of my life
I carved deep into my eyes
so I could scrape my iris
Emotionless agony built by the sirens
given me false hope in something so pure
her beauty was my paradise, a maze that I couldn't escape
trapped within a facade....this is my fate
her beauty pulsates like the glowing moon
drown my sorrow....and my gloom
I thought she was mine, grown for my delight
I now will see
just the coulour inside my eyes
when willthe colours blend
at the end, her light decends
this garden of my life has lied to me all along
the orchid that I had isn't true
her serenade is just a swan song
Before her radiant skies
she welcomes the falling rain
the petals burned into the ground,
shows a sign of her pain
I stand before her beauty
frozen behind her eyes
the blue of her iris
has become a shade
her beauty is no more
the colours will always fade
I'm hoping for one last second
I'm left broken once again
her serenade is calling me
the orchid is mine
my desire is never set free
i'm down on my knees
I'm begging for you to stay alive
I never wanted you to leave
I was too intoxicated by my lust
my pulse drowns, I can't breathe...
Scheme | ABCDEFBGHIIAAJFKLMNOPQBDFRFSTSFUVUDFKWXWYZD1 D2 3 4 5 6 |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (22%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110001001 0101011101 111101111001 110110111010 1111 01011 11011 11111 1011 11011111011 1011111 1110100110101 1101 01001111 1110111 1111110 110011010 1011101011 010111001111001 10101111 010110101 11111 1111111101 1111 1010111 1111 101011 1101111111101 010111101 00111011 0101001 1100101 01010101 101101 1101010 100101 011010 10101 010111 01111 11011110 1110101 0011101 01011 101011011 11111 110111101 11010111 1110100111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,513 |
Words | 307 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 50 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 305 |
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Submitted on July 20, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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