Analysis of before hell
i’ve been shot ,
i’ve not had the four leaf clover of a bullet through my head .
instead i’d been blasted ,
right a top my shoulder blade ,
wounded .
slowly deceasing to the pits of hell ,
like i has been stricken by a blazing vermilion arrow ,
an invitation attached to it ,
seeping into my skin ,
slowly seizing what bit of earth i had left in me .
i’m half pain bound and struck ,
while the other half is carted away ,
leaving nothing but a scarlett shallow ,
and a half empty soul .
Scheme | ABCDCEFGHIJKFL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 111011101010111 011110 1011101 10 10110111 111110101001010 10100111 100111 1010111111101 111101 1010111001 1010101010 001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 367 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
About this poem
someone’s journey to the afterlife, slow and painful
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