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.
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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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