Analysis of Curses
They close in around me,
I sense them,
slithering beneath my skin's surface.
For ages, I've fled,
Always fleeing,
striving to outpace myself,
Yet I can't shake off
The turmoil within.
A desperate longing for recognition,
My legs mirror my father's,
Their likeness strikes me,
His shadow, once a looming cloud
In my tumultuous youth,
Now seeks refuge
Within the corners of my home,
nesting in familiarity.
My uncle's transgressions,
A debt that demands payment,
Life insists I bear the burden,
poison from the rivers of the past,
courses through my veins,
Bubbling, churning, boiling.
In the familiar eruption,
This tale unfolds once more,
One of anguish and ruin,
Yet the wounded persist,
Their scars run deep,
Trauma unhealed, festering.
Not a whisper escapes,
They came for them,
And upon their demise,
They come for me.
Black roots decay,
A cycle spreading like weeds.
Scheme | ABXXCXXX DXAXXXXA XXDXXC DXDXXC XBXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 111 100011110 11011 110 10111 11111 0101 010101010 1110110 11011 1110101 011001 1110 01010111 1000100 110010 0110110 10111010 101010101 10111 1001010 0001010 110111 1110010 101001 1111 101100 101001 1111 001101 1111 1101 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 875 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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