Analysis of The Elegy of the Moss
You used to talk about how you wanted it done,
A funeral of carelessness with so much love rotting in me.
The wolves would come in the dark,
stalking the empty carcass of what you once were,
And they would ravage and rip out the meat from your
bones,
Scrambling to take the best of what you once were
I could be nothing without you.
This is why I sit here now,
At the head of a table rotten and old,
moss growing through the crack and crevices.
I drink the sweet wine of your blood,
the tender meat of your inner thigh.
I am a wolf, watching her only god compress and rot.
You are a heaven I will never live and
I must eat you whole to make sure I never forget.
I must eat you whole for you and I to survive.
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Metre | 111101111011 0100110011111001 0111001 100101011110 011100110111 1 100110111110 11110011 1111111 10110101001 1101010100 11011111 010111101 11011001011001 11010111010 1111111111001 111111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 717 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 549 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
About this poem
This Poem was inspired by the media I often enjoy such as Yellow Jackets and Hozier as well as a way to more so explain the emotions I have for others that I often can't really say out loud.
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