Analysis of The Poetic Curse
In your poets twilight
Upside down and reeling
Stage by stage, your journeying
Into the land of feelings
The cornerstone is breaking
Wisdom seems impure
The spirits of your history
Prove they can endure
The hammer of your writing
The sickle of your mind-
Breaks away the silence
That always proved unkind
The patience of misfortune
The prophet in your pen
Takes misgivings' longings
To remind you when-
The plight was your own failure
You courted all their ways
That keeps you in the violence
That words cannot allay.
| Scheme | XAAB ACXC ADED XFBF XXEX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 01101 111010 1111100 0101110 010110 10101 01011100 11101 0101110 010111 101010 11101 0101010 010011 101010 10111 0111110 110111 11100100 111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 498 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 08, 2023
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