Analysis of Cold Steel
Cold Steel, where has it been?
Feeling everything, but nothing
at all.
Stays for a while then she's gone.
Warm inside,
but the Steel stays cold.
Who holds that Cold Steel?
Hands that shake in fear
or delight?
Cold Steel, who is in control?
Listen while it's in.
Do you hear pain or joy?
Only the Steel knows for sure.
Always felt on the in,
never the out.
Only Cold Steel knows where it has been.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJAKLAMA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1010110 11 1101111 101 10111 11111 11101 101 1111001 10110 111111 1001111 11100 1001 101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
About this poem
It is a story of addiction and loneliness, and all the turmoil that goes with it.
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