Analysis of Blood Moon Bay
Don't cry over our love
Please, not anymore.
The last time I heard your sweet, black tears, my soul fell forlorn.
I cannot bear to see her body stir.
Like poison it succumbs
Although I wished for placid rest,
I know I've made mascara run.
It Constricts and chokes like vicious vines,
my loathsome, rampant past.
I cherish her hopes, and golden skin,
whilst mine is iron cast.
Her room painted by bloody brush.
Lit by candle and chandelier
And from her headboard perched so high
I pictured rebirth in here.
A million dreams have passed on by
here at Blood Moon Bay.
It overwhelms my breaking heart
that only you chose to stay.
A minor swell of silver strings
I cannot bear to hear them chime
A major swell of crushing winds
blows apart our lives.
Somewhere, A mother shepherds her infant birds.
She fills their mouths
until they are strong and safe to fly
Fit to taste life’s fleeting fruits
but once away, alone she’ll die.
Cradled onto quiet oak limbs
A breath of soot into her lungs
A life and love and journeys end,
has been found by a mourning dove
It haunts me in my waking dream
I cannot bear to hear at all
this old hymn of roses wilting
and the ways the petals fall
I am both the torturer
and the sinner who is flayed
So watch my heart, sink and drown
here at Blood Moon Bay.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1101 01111111111101 1101110101 110101 1111101 11110101 11011101 110101 110010101 111101 01101101 11100001 0101111 1100101 01011111 11111 1011101 1101111 01011101 11011111 01011101 101101 1010100101 1111 011110111 1111101 11010111 1101011 01110101 01010101 11110101 11101101 11011111 11111010 0010101 1110100 0010111 1111101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,299 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Watching a soul drown in sorrow, is truly a loathsome experience.
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Written on July 19, 2022
Submitted by Qui_Exe on August 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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