Analysis of A Bitter Soul



Alone.
Desolate.
Obsolete.
Obscured.

There's darkness in my heart
Right where my soul used to be
You can only find my eye
Lying in the coffin next to me

I lay awake in the dark off the heat
When my soul will awake
Hiding beneath

Desperation.
I wait.
In the pit of my sympathy

And am chewed up like cake
Vomited in the middle of the street

Sound dissipates
Life isn't what it used to be

My silent fate
Stares, and walks up to kiss me

I am so cold.
Standing between two cacti leaves
With thirst so warm
I can almost taste my feet

It's bitter. It's sweet.
It's so bitter sweet.

Too bitter to eat.
A stolen and forgotten seed.


Scheme XXAX XBXB ACX XDB CA XB DB XXXA AA AX
Poetic Form
Metre 01 100 10 01 110011 1111111 1110111 100010111 1101001101 111101 1001 010 11 00111100 011111 10010101 110 11011111 1101 1011111 1111 10011101 1111 111111 11011 11101 11011 01000101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 639
Words 146
Sentences 12
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by sheryl9gray on June 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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