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.


Scheme ABCDEFDGHIJKLMNOP
Poetic Form
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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Written on September 25, 2023

Submitted by a.upchurch06 on November 29, 2023

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Abbigail Upchurch

I grew up moving around a lot and having much of my childhood struggling to understand and voice my emotions and understand them. I'm a college student working on a Physics major and often write poetry as an outlet for stress and to understand and voice how I currently feel and think. more…

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