Analysis of Devil's Phantasia
I can feel the razorblades across my heart,
Cutting away the pieces of a love I used to feel,
Ripping your fading memory apart,
In search of something that is truly real.
I look to the stars for an answer,
But they only shine in mute misunderstanding,
I look to my friends for love and a smile,
But here again I'm left alone, standing.
So I look to drugs to ease my pain
A superficial fantasy that locks away the tears,
A devil's phantasia of ecstacy
Erasing the insecurities of my teenage years.
I slice the knife across my skin
Reveling in the bittersweet sensation of heavenly agony,
Intense red sea I'm sinking in,
Forgetting the heartache of my tragedy.
I leave you behind as my innocence fades,
No longer an angel that could do no wrong,
But a devil's phantasia of ecstacy
As I crash into what I feared for so long.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFGGHIJIJKLGL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111010111 10010101011111 1011010001 0111011101 111011110 11101010010 1111111001 1101110110 111111111 0010100110101 010111 010001001111 11010111 10000100101100100 01111100 0100111100 11101111001 11011011111 1010111 11101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 802 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 648 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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Submitted on October 20, 2009
Modified on April 03, 2023
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