Analysis of Sheila's Effect: A Daughter's Tradgedy
It seems as if death will always make you cry
As if when she died so did I
As a result I drastically changed
My smile faded away
I have never been the same
Now I see life is just a game
And Death is either a win or loss
Death is swell when it ends your suffering
So I'd rather have you dead than with me in pain
I go on day to day trying to block you from my mind
So I fill my head with lies
Try to get to the point where I never remember your face
And where you once were is now just empty space
I'm clearly disillusioned
And crazy
But just maybe this scheme I've concocted will save me
You see I handle my grief in an impractical way
Forcing everyone to stay away
Pushing everyone away
So death can't rip them away from me like it did you
Scheme | AAXBC CX XXXXDD XEE BBBX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111111111 11111111 100111001 111001 1110101 11111101 011100111 1111111100 111011111101 11111110111111 1111111 111101111001011 01110111101 110010 010 1110111010111 11110110101001 10101101 101001 1111101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 6, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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