Analysis of It Hurts



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
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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Written on December 31, 2021

Submitted by Arx7Echo on January 02, 2022

Modified by Arx7Echo on March 06, 2022

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