Analysis of Pain
In my brain
there’s a frame with her face,
ghastly mirage of her trace,
a resistant stain.
In vain
to remove it I attempt
for the stain spreads
across my veins
producing severe pain.
It’s an image that returns
again and again.
That day…
under thin rain
before we first kissed,
in her slow caress,
I simply misread
the two words she said.
Since then,
her gaze became
a high-speed train,
which I began to chase
while it went away
–escaped–
And in the shade
I try to wait
and hope that itself
the train will stop, then stay,
and the stain will eventually fade away.
No train,
no gaze,
no place,
for my desire,
but my brain.
In vain I attempt
to slain the stain,
the cause of my pain.
Scheme | ABBA ACXXAXD EAXXXX DXABEX XXXEE AXBXA CAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 101101 1001101 00101 01 1011101 1011 0111 010011 1110101 01001 11 1011 01111 00101 11001 01111 11 0101 0111 110111 11101 01 0001 1111 01101 011111 001101000101 11 11 11 11010 111 01101 1101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 701 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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