Analysis of Poison’s Lament
How I long to be the air in someone’s lungs,
And the blood that pumps the heart.
Instead, I feel like a poison—
Infecting the brain,
Sucking life out of a body—
Trying to cure my own maladies,
And alleviate my own pain.
I hope it didn’t hurt.
I wish I was the remedy.
But I am not,
And I am sorry.
| Scheme | XX XABXA X B XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101011 0011101 01111010 01001 10111010 101111100 0010111 11111 11110100 1111 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 309 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem to express my feelings about my relationships and how I feel when they are coming to an end. My longing to bring happiness to someone that I love battles with my deepest fear of being a burden and 'infecting' people with misery when I find myself in a depression. I am sorry if you too have felt this pain.
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