Analysis of Fresh skin
Like a new pair of shoes
I ware you in.
Fresh skin. Fresh newborn skin.
Skin from within my wound.
Wounds from life waring me in.
I stretch you and how you draw me in.
To touch your softness.
To scratch you away again.
Fresh skin so relieving.
Fresh skin. Fresh, fresh skin.
So pink like a fresh ripe apple
I wonder why you were healed
When I tore off your coat of hard clotting blood.
Fresh skin. Fresh and alive organ that holds me within.
I would lick you like my newborn child
imagining I was a lioness wild and free and feral. Alone but for us.
Fresh skin. Fresh in our relationship.
Fresh skin. Fresh youthful skin.
Scheme | XAAXA ABXXA XXXA XBX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 1110 111101 110111 1111010 111011110 11110 1110101 111010 11111 11101110 1101101 11111111101 1110011011101 111111101 0100110110101001111 111010010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on March 01, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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