Analysis of It Hurts
Elijah Ramos 1995
It hurts
This heart of mine
A self-deprecating little thing
How unfortunately full of misery
But what does it matter
It's who I am
Who I've always been
It's suffocating
And there's no limit
A sour dose of poison
It fills my lungs with all its toxicity
Yet somehow I'm still breathing
How self-destructive could this be
I have fallen and it stings
Fallen too far off the edge
A fractured bone means nothing
If not too much
This weight I carry
Gets heavier and heavier
How did I become like this
A self-made belittled mistake
Kept it inside
For far longer than I should
Lighting kerosene on such a fire
Leaving flames to char my own skin
And in the end no one knows
How bad this all still hurts....
Scheme | ABCDEFGCHIDCDJKCLDEMNOPEGQA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1111 01100101 10100011100 111110 1111 1111 1100 01110 0101110 11111110100 111110 11010111 1110011 1011101 0101110 1111 11110 11000100 1110111 01101001 1101 1110111 101011010 10111111 0001111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 554 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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