Analysis of Radiant Crimson



Radiant crimson seeps through my mind
As intoxicating and double edged as white wine
It's as through my soul is fractured into a million microscopic shreds
The very moment I let my rage go to my head
It is impossible to think anything other than “I would be better off dead”

I cannot face my friends, cannot look my parents in the eye
The idiot’s jest has morphed into a knife
Slashing and cutting as it cares out my eye

What used to be joy leaves me writhing in anguish
The arms of my lover turn cold when I am near
Freezing like marble as my eyes shed no tears
Looking so still while trapped shivering in fear

My family looks at me with a grief that slices through my heart
As my unfeeling eyes plead with them to set my spirit free
All the while thinking: it is too late for me


Scheme XXXAA BXB XCXC XDD
Poetic Form
Metre 100101111 101000101111 11111110010100101 0101011111111 11010011101011111011 110111101110001 01001110101 10010111111 111111110010 011110111111 10110111111 10111110001 1100111101110111 110101111111101 10110111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 790
Words 157
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 3, 4, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 38

About this poem

This poem was created to express a feeling of being trapped inside your mind. It conveys the emotions felt by those who believed their fate is determined by their past actions.

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Written on October 28, 2023

Submitted by Spring397 on December 23, 2023

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Julianna Dernbach

Julianna Dernbach is a high school poet, photographer, and musician. She feels that these creative mediums allow her to express emotion and invoke thoughts and feelings in others. more…

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