Analysis of Living Nightmare: An Anaphora
Living Nightmare: An Anaphora
Eyes fill, tears threaten, spill,
never ending waterfall, pain so real,
stabs deep, blood splattered, so red,
gut retching, monster feeding on entrails.
A dark stain, spreading rapidly, tainting the soul,
deepening, thickening, consuming, so terrifying,
a happening so violent, eyes can never erase, so cruel,
monsters so real, hidden among men, trusted ones, exhale.
Glazed eyes filled with horror, gaze at bodies strung about,
children defiled, parents weeping, rage unbearable, so cold,
tears fall from the eyes of the betrayed, victims, so helpless,
in a room filled with people, yet the monster reached them.
Here in this place, the monster in nightmares, exists,
in the skin of man, he walks and talks, preying, so scared,
a bloody wake follows him, yet nothing heralds him, so weak,
the monster hiding in plain sight, so hard for one to fight.
Eyes filled with tears, falling in endless streams,
shame devouring the spirit, anguish the soul, so petrifying,
looking at the blood on the walls, emotions, so overwhelming,
the victims stands to leave, but stops as she sees, so many others.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110100 111101 101010111 1111011 111010110 011101001001 1001000101100 01001100111001110 10111001110101 1111101110101 10110101010011 11101100110110 0011110101011 10110100101 0011111011011 010110111010111 01010011111111 1111100101 10100010100111 101011010101010 0101111111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,118 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 20 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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