Analysis of Fall from grace.



My presence is not admitted nor
welcomed unless my skin is raw
and stripped like a butcher’s meat.
False smiles of fake confidence attempt
to cover me with pearlised silk sheets,
but I lay bare and exposed.
I feel your sharp teeth in the subaqueous depths
of your kisses, and I am breathless.
I didn’t want this,
but I wanted you and thus I forgot my own well-being for yours.

I never really wanted this.

You sink your teeth into me once more,
I scream under our embracement.
I grabbed for the lifeline,
but the rope burns my nestled snug hands,
so you let me fall.
Your touch both consoles and devastates me.


Scheme AXBXXXXXCX C ABXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110110101 10011111 0110101 111110001 11011111 1111001 111110011 111001110 1111 11101011011111011 11010101 111101111 1110101 11101 101111011 11111 11101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 625
Words 130
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 10, 1, 6
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 160
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted by Em_McG on January 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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