Analysis of Dead Ringer
Beyond the door, she reigns in silence
As I nurse the wounds of battles past
The air still thick with words of violence
She’s beckoned me to her court at last
With frigid stare and pointed the finger
Icy floors crack, under weight of strife
Her shadow cursed her name… Dead Ringer
While I balance on the edge of a knife
Her eyes roll, as if drunk with tension
I’m frozen in a numb surrender
In my tears, I’m shown sweet reflections
Of one I’ve lost, but still remember
It was an August day, down by the creek
She was summer’s heat, in a yellow side braid
Writing our names in the earth with bare feet
As her firefly laugh, chased the shade away
Popsicle cherry kisses soothed the burn
As her dress danced in the wind she had blown
And took my breath, with no return
On her sunkissed freckles, I drew a home
That day is lost to lifetimes ago
Though in me, her fingerprints still linger
But she’s now imprisoned as the shadow
Of the one I call… Dead Ringer.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XCXC XXXX EXEX FCFC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 010111010 111011101 0111111100 110110111 1101010010 101110111 01101110 1110101101 011111110 110001010 011111010 111111010 1111011101 11101001011 10101001111 1010110101 1001010101 1011001111 01111101 101101101 11111101 101010110 111010101 10111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 982 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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