Analysis of Another Burden

Bryan K Shaw 1979 (Earth)



Set aside
And left alone.
Hate collects,
And spills over
Into contempt.
Tearing away
At the skin
Of my awakening.
Another Burden
I carry with me
Through life.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 101 0101 101 0110 0101 1001 101 110100 01010 11011 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 148
Words 28
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

Wrote during a very bad time in my life.

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