Analysis of scars and sadness
lanuma Thamsuhang 2004 (Kathmandu)
I kiss my scars
like they are my lover
I see a person who pulls me
from a dark place who
covers my skin
with their arms
wrapped around me
I feel safe
in the night
sleeping alone.
head up in the clouds
all my pain flourishes
into a flower
my sadness will never leave me
craves me up in
my emotions spread
like branches of a old tree
which looks dead.
my heart wrenching
my soul is drowning
in the ocean of melancholy
I try to lift my head up from the water
but all I can see is a ship falling
and people watching
they don't do nothing
they just keep talking
about my appearance
from outside
and make jokes about
what is killing me softly.
- Lanuma Thamsuhang
Scheme | XABXCXBXXX XXABCDBD EEBAEEEEXXXB E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 111110 11010111 10111 1011 111 1011 111 001 1001 11001 111100 01010 11011011 1110 10101 1101011 111 1110 11110 00101100 11111111010 1111110110 01010 11110 11110 011010 111 01101 1110110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8, 12, 1 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
it's about how everyone of us feel with our scars. some make us remember about our haunting past or the pain we carry throughout it.
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Written on May 02, 2021
Submitted by limbulanuma on December 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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