Analysis of Taking My Blades (TW for mention self-injury)



Why would they
Do this to me?
I want to scream at them.
Desperately asking
Why they would dare
Take away my only means
Of relief
When I need it most.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1111 111111 100010 1111 1011101 101 11111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 150
Words 34
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on April 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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