Analysis of THE LADY IN WHITE
A warning to you dancing with the Lady in White,
Her medicine stuns, leave’s you HIGH as a kite.
You think back and wonder how it got here,
There are gaps and things are fuzzy nothing is clear
A fucking gorilla lives on your back,
His only purpose is to get a fat sack.
The things you will do and the things you say,
MR. Gorilla will get his way.
How do you kill the beast, the beast is you?
You allowed him in gave yourself up to.
IT takes a lifetime for you to see what's real,
The death of you, your Achilles' heel.
Even knowing you are still willing to play,
If you’re lucky you get to live another day.
Another day is just a day you must hustle,
Sometimes it’s the brain other times it’s all muscle.
It brings temporary pleasure but at what cost,
Among the living are the dead in the land of the lost.
It is powerful overwhelms you and me,
Bounded by chains you cannot break-free.
The lies, dirty deeds and all the shady tricks,
Chasing the bag for your next fix.
I once had hope and dreams to pursue,
Getting High is all you want to do.
The only thing in life I regret,
Is the day The Lady in White and I met…….?
TURBO1904 OCT. 2021
| Scheme | AA XX BB CC DD EE CC FF XX GG HH DD II X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101110101001 01001111101 1110101111 111011101011 0100101111 11010111011 0111100111 100101111 1111010111 1011010111 1101111111 011110101 10101111011 111011110101 010111011110 011011011110 11100101111 01010101001101 1110001101 101111011 01101010101 10011111 111101101 101111111 010101101 10101001011 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,220 |
| Words | 225 |
| Sentences | 16 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
Struggling with addiction. The life of an addict is not where it is at. It is a hard way live.
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Written on October 02, 2021
Submitted by Turbo1904 on October 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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