Analysis of Malignancy, sorry to say.
I can waste a body
I can shatter dreams
I can raise my threat
Through a thousand schemes.
I can rob a home
I can stunt a life
I can tear the bond
Of a man and wife.
I can pull the blind
Down on hope or joy
And the neighbours’talk
I will oft’ employ
They have heard the tales
Of the soul that wails.
And will linger
Only to crash in time.
Friends may show up
Giving some good report
Urging one last push
So that spirit climbs.
But it troubles me
That a few gain power
As they choose to smile
In my meanest hour.
As they give loud thanks
For a life to date
And they lean on Christ
For tomorrow’s fate.
Scheme | ABXBXCXC XDXDEEFXXXXX AFXFXGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11101 11111 10101 11101 11101 11101 10101 11101 11111 001 11101 11101 10111 0110 101101 1111 101101 10111 11101 11101 101110 11111 011010 11111 10111 01111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 12, 8 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Written on April 10, 2019
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 10, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 10, 2023
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