Analysis of Belladonna
Thomas W. Case 1966 (California)
Everyday that dawns,
you slip away a little more.
The distant stare,
the apathetic eyes.
Your love is as dead
as the roses in
the trash.
Your heart is an
abyss that I'm
lost in forever.
Belladonna drew me in.
The poison kept me there.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJFC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 11010101 0101 00101 11111 10100 01 1111 0111 10010 1110 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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