Analysis of A Pyrrhic Soul



Clenched in a vise I can't escape
Filled with the stench of Brimstone.
A beckoning call never answered.
Meandering thoughts of what could have been:
Should have been, but will never be.
Transcends life, death, and time:
Pure thoughts not conceived,
Where depravity now reigns supreme.
Blood and flesh: cold, stagnant:
Stoically looms forward for yet one more try.
Believing, hoping, for the void to close
Whence, one can linger in absolute serenity.
Day and night, come and go.
One, two, three: an eternity to explore.
This now the magnanimous existence:
Blessed nor cursed:
Cloaked with ineffable sadness,
Consumed by immortal torment.
A shattered spirit:
A Pyrrhic Soul.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKELMNOPQRS
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Metre 10011101 1101110 010011010 0100111111 11111101 011101 11101 101001101 101110 10011011111 0101010111 111100100100 101101 11110100101 1100100010 111 11010010 0110101 01010 0101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 653
Words 108
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 534
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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