Analysis of Lost Soul



I wander in the gloomy night,
And search for any ray of light;
But all I see is endless dark,
And all I hear is silence stark.

I do not know how long I've been
A prisoner of this dreadful scene;
I only know that I have sinned,
And that I cannot be forgiven.

I once had hopes, I once had dreams,
I once had love, I once had peace;
But then I made a fatal choice,
And lost them all with one bad deed.

I killed the one who loved me most,
And broke her heart with cruel words;
I did not heed her dying plea,
Nor did I shed a tear for her.

And then I felt a sudden pain,
A piercing stab within my chest;
I fell beside her lifeless form,
And joined her in the realm of death.

But death was not the end for me,
Nor was it a release from woe;
For I was doomed to roam the earth,
And never reach the heaven's glow.

And so I roam, and so I grieve,
And so I suffer endlessly;
I have no hope, I have no rest,
I have no chance of being blessed.

I am the lost, the damned, the cursed,
The spirit that can never soar;
I am the one who cannot die,
And yet can never live no more.


Scheme AABB XXXX XXXX XXCX XDXX CEXE XCDD XFXF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (38%)
Metre 11000101 01110111 11111101 01111101 11111111 010011101 11011111 011101010 11111111 11111111 11110101 01111111 11011111 01011101 11110101 11110110 01110101 01010111 11010101 01000111 11110111 11100111 11111101 01010101 01110111 01110100 11111111 11111101 11010101 01011101 11011101 01110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,070
Words 264
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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Written on December 17, 2023

Submitted by conductor on December 17, 2023

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