Analysis of Subtracted

Anna D. Murry 1976 (Fort Sill, OK)



Subtracted is the only word I can use to describe how I feel,

Subtracted is what my life shows on the outside,

Subtracted is what I feel when you take away my feelings,

Subtracted is how my confused and happy life looks,

Subtracted is how anxiety has taken me,

Subtracted is so often mistaken for loneliness,

Subtracted is just hurtful and sort of mean,

Subtracted is one of the most painful feelings,

Subtracted is my feelings, love, care, patience, and passion for my life....abandoned.


Scheme X A B X X X X B A
Poetic Form
Metre 01010101111101111 010111111011 010111111101110 0101110101011 0101101001101 01011100101100 01011100111 010111011010 01011101110010111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 481
Words 85
Sentences 2
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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