Analysis of golden shoes & diamonds too



I lost my way, far away from home.
My shoes I made from gold I never owned.
Still I walked like the righteous man, alone?
All alone in shoes with no soles.
The bottoms of my feet just blood and bone.
---
And where have I gone?
To some carnival of shame~
where fires burned away every letter of my name.
I look back and all I can see are bloodied footprints
upon the ruination of every thing that ever spoke of me.
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My diamonds in hand, within a pill bottle they rattle.
Marching away towards nothing that matters.
I shine and I glitter,
all the way to Hell,
where my end will be bitter,
under this spell.
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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 590
Words 120
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 120

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Submitted by unag4anet on October 15, 2021

Modified on April 19, 2023

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