Analysis of Diamonds and Blood

Harry C. Craft III 1959 (Phoenix, Arizona)



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
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

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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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