Analysis of The Scent of Death
A girl has fallen into the waters of despair after the one she loved turned her world into deathly visions.
She looks out at the world from her tear stained window, in search of something more in life than the crazed dreams
his song offered her in return for the
affection she gave him.
He, whom she thought to be her handsome prince, turned out to be the disease of the mind.
For now, Liza can only see the bare tree that used to be in full bloom and once washed away the wounds of her soul, now stands there like a sword waiting to pierce her heart once more.
She picks up the lifeless rose he planted in her hair, and dresses her essence with the scent of death that now becomes her. She rubs it against her face while crushing it with her fingers, and massages the crumpled pieces all over her flesh.
Her eyes turn to the picture of herself with her one time love.
Liza picks it up and rubs the remains of the rose all over his image.
She walks outside onto her porch, runs
down the steps, all the way across the
street to the cemetery, strikes a match,
burns the picture, and lets it fall next to his tombstone where beneath the earth,
his body now lays with hers embraced in
the arms of each other forever.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIACJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001010101100111101011010 111101101110011101011011 1110000110 010111 11111101011111001101 111011010111111011011010110111110110110111 1110101110001010010101111101011101011101101000100101011001 011101010110111 1011101001101110110 111110011 101101010 110100101 10100111111110101 1101110010 011110010 |
Characters | 1,198 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 64 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 957 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 234 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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