Analysis of Gin (2018)



Bruises color your face
and the split lip he
gave you is enough
to warrant it,

but gin on ice
is never enough to cut
the sting of the morning,
after,

the pain on
the inside won’t just
go away with the cool rush of
juniper berries that
tastes like jet engine fuel.


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 101011 00111 11101 1101 1111 1100111 011010 10 011 00111 10110111 100101 1111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 267
Words 58
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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