Analysis of Promise of a Threat (TW for mention of SA)



I wish I could go back
To that one
Fateful day again
And unmake the mistake
That left me
A million miles away
From the me
I once knew.
I wish I hadn’t let you
Do the things
You did to me.
I wish I had refused
So my life might’ve taken
A better turn
Than this.
If you really would have
Threatened to kill me,
If I didn’t do with you
What you wanted
And I still refused,
Would you actually have taken knives
Out of your pocket
Or backpack or wherever
And still actually try
To hurt or kill me?
If I didn’t care about your
Now very-real threat
And still I refused,
Would you still have killed me?
Was it really a threat,
Or not?


Scheme ABCDEFEGGHEIBJKLEGMINOPQERSIEST
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 111 10101 01001 111 010101 101 111 111111 101 1111 111101 111110 0101 11 111011 10111 111111 1110 01101 111001101 11110 111010 011001 11111 1111011 11011 01101 111111 111001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 643
Words 147
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 31
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 483
Words per stanza (avg) 128
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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on April 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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