Analysis of Karma

Scarlett Lamm 1992 (California)



If karma does not kiss your lips,
hope my memory haunts your trips,
for every lie slipped through your tongue,
hope my side of the battle is won.

lies cut through my soul like butter,
disrespect easily rolled without a stutter,
six foot man lifting twice my weight,
distortion of reality became his trait.

If karma does not punch you in the face,
living a happy life without a trace,
hope the ghost of my broken soul haunts your life,
the way your gaslighting cut me like a knife.


Scheme AAXX BBCC DDEE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 11011111 11100111 110011111 111101011 11111110 01100101010 11110111 0101100111 1101111001 1001010101 10111101111 011111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 483
Words 102
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

I wrote this poem describing the pain and anger I felt during a divorce from a narcissist.

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Written on October 05, 2023

Submitted by Sherryzade on October 05, 2023

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