Analysis of Victory?



Moving silently down shadowed halls the darkness hinders not at all.
Pushing softly on each passing door then returning to the one before.
This one moved the tiniest bit just by barely pushing it
Inside the room in deep shadows lay a man with clothes in disarray.
A broken glass lay by the door and whisky scent rose from the floor.
Beside the bed on the windowsill sat an empty bottle of fentanyl.
Ragged breathing filled the air and perspiration soaked the pillow there.
Moving slowly over the moaning man a silent transformation began.
His face turned an ashen gray and the moaning faded soft away.
His temperature began to drop and then at last his breathing stopped.
Now it was clear for all to see the man was finally cancer free.


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Poetic Form
Metre 10100110101010111 101011101101010101 111010011110101 010101110111001 0101110101011101 010110111101011 1010101001010101 101010010101001001 1111101001010101 1100011101111101 11111111011100101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 726
Words 132
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 54
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 595
Words per stanza (avg) 132
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Written on 2018

Submitted by Snodeel on September 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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