Analysis of Widowed



She was not promised
Never wed
Yet her lover still lie dead
In a coffin
Beneath the snow
Was he real?
She doesnt know

A cold dark room, shes trapped, it reeks
In a bed not left for weeks
Her familys worried
Their heads too hard
So few helped to tend her yard

How could she share this bitter loss
When losing them might be the cost?

Theyll call you crazy, thow you away
Pill you up, put you on display
Claiming youll be better this way

So on lost feelings she coughs and chokes
Stuffing poison down her throat
He tells her its to dull the pain
To make the bad thoughts go away

However, theyre never truly gone
No matter the drug
Nor the constant sleep
Not even after soft lies she keeps
They find their way, they crawl and creep
Claws sunk in, a hurt too deep

Years of lost trust, stress, and pain
In her mind, plays a deadly game
Rusts her future, taints her name
So she hides, under layers of shame

Fondly dream of honey flowers
Laughing, playing on for hours
Had a home, a perchlike throne
Hated nothing, never alone
All that perfect, childlike wonder
Ripped away, broken, torn asunder

Really, how did it all begin?
Became aware around six
Those haunted thoughts
Her bonded twin
Sat behind and watched them win

Taking over with no remorse
New regrets, no settled scores
Struggling, gasping, fighting to breathe
No longer safe here, ready to leave

They left her out there in the cold
Felt no warmth, no hand to hold
Stumbling blindly through the dark
Searching for that long lost spark

Shes getting tired, barely holding on
The nothing seeping, good feelings gone
Its taking over, corrupting her mind
Gotta hurry, no stop, please dont cry

Nows not the time
Youve gotta work
The real world doesnt water hurt
Paste your smile
Do your time
And everything will turn out fine.


Scheme XAABCXC DDXEE XX FFF XXGF HXIXII GJJJ KKLLMM BXXBB XXXX NNOO XHXX PXXXPX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Metre 11110 101 1010111 0010 0101 111 111 01111111 0011111 0110 1111 1111101 11111101 11011101 111101101 11111101 10111011 111101101 1010101 11011101 11011101 10110101 11001 10101 110101111 11111101 1100111 1111101 00110101 1010101 111101011 10111010 10101110 101011 10101001 1101110 101101010 10111101 0101011 1101 0101 1010111 10101101 1011101 100101011 110111011 11011001 1111111 10010101 1011111 1101010101 010101101 1101001001 101011111 1101 1101 0111101 111 111 0101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,798
Words 354
Sentences 4
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 7, 5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 4, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 60
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

I wrote this during a really dark time in my life. It made me feel better to make something fun out of all the mess ive been through. Writing my feelings down really helped, this is the product.

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Written on November 08, 2021

Submitted by Coliosis on July 10, 2022

Modified on April 10, 2023

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