Analysis of Diamonds and Blood
I came upon the wreckage
in the late October midnight black
through the fog I saw a beautiful
breathless life
her bones protruding through
flesh like a jagged knife
perhaps someone’s daughter,
sister, or wife
Stillness encircled my warm body
like raging waters of a flood
from the glare of headlights
projected on twisted metal
appeared a view of diamonds
and blood
with all humanity torn away and
the sound of a faint cry
I could not resist the intriguing
question of…why?
Curiosity compelled my mind to
take a closer look
uncertainty tugged at my heart,
but my feet carried me forward
to see the stream of blood
dripping like a slow-moving brook
down the ring finger of the
lifeless blonde goddess
and fall to a puddle below her car door
to once again, see diamonds
and blood…
Scheme | xxabcbxb xdxaeDxfxf cgxxdgxxxeD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 00101011 101110100 101 010101 11011 01110 1011 100101110 11010101 10111 01011010 0101110 01 1101001010 011011 111010010 1011 010001111 10101 01001111 11110110 110111 10101101 1011010 10110 01101001011 1101110 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
Three days after I got my drivers license I came upon a wreck on a dark lonely Indiana road and this is what I saw.
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