Analysis of Red Death



No antidote, no cure.
 Inhabitants at best,
 I will halt your future,
 For I am the Red Death!

Keep your distance I say.
 One touch, one breath alone,
 Will send you to your grave,
 Disorder to which I'm prone.

Small lacerations form.
 The surface starts to itch,
 No hindering this storm,
 No repairing this glitch.

Lock your doors, turn the key.
 I'll feed the need to bleed,
 But you can't hide from me,
 Red Death of destiny!


Scheme XXXX XAXA BCBC DXDD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11011 010011 111110 111011 111011 111101 111111 0101111 10101 010111 110011 101011 111101 110111 111111 111100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 422
Words 78
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on September 08, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ashley Hutcherson

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