Analysis of Decayed Wings
He asked me if it hurt when I fell from heaven
And it wasn't a charming question
My wings were set ablaze
As I crashed through the Earth's atmosphere
Each feather plucked with painstaking vulgarity
I grasped at moons and galaxies
In a desperate attempt
To slow my blazing descent
And the burns still smoke
My scarred back still smouldering
There went my ignorant purity
As a gritty harsh reality was thrust upon me
"You should know.
You pushed me."
| Scheme | AAXXBXXXCCBB XB |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111111110 011001010 110101 11110110 11011100100 11110100 001001 1111001 00111 11111 111100100 101011011011 111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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