Analysis of Bearing The Curse
He died
the day before
his birth
the curse had worked again
Generations
in the womb
their feticide
a last amen
The garden path
a stepford trap
whose fruit trees
bear the scorn
Enoch built
to hide the curse
the Mark of Cain
— damnation born
(The New Room: February, 2024)
Scheme | AXXB XXAB XXXC XXXC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 0101 11 011101 010 001 11 0101 0101 011 111 101 101 1101 0111 0101 011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 280 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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