Analysis of Light With A Sharpened Edge
You came to me,
a sliver of hope in a
dark world,
caressed me, loved me,
gave me dreams and chased away
nightmares,
a goddess that soon turned devil,
betrayed faith,
lost in a barren desert of denial,
you came to be a
light with sharpened edge.
| Scheme | ABCADEFGFBH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 0101100 11 01111 1110101 1 01011110 011 10010101010 11110 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on March 20, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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