Analysis of Scarlet Woman
They look at her
with greedy eyes
As she drops down her guards
to surrender her flesh at last
to them, monsters in mask.
Taking no time
disrobing her
with eyes and hands alike
They dig their untamed claws
tearing her apart tonight.
They feast on her
night after night
Yet cringe about her alleys
to their own, during daylight
to veil their dark conquest.
And yet she smiles
A broken heart
is far too less a price to pay
And bloody scars of her ordeal
does not matter anymore.
For a baby waits
in a corner room
who must grow in a world too far
And his hope rests on how much
a mother can bear tonight.
So she will smile
and still invite
more beasts to dig deep and bite
She wills to trade her present for
a future that he might live.
They called her a whore,
a slut and what not
No one ever called her a mother
who fed herself to beasts of lust
to feed her only child.
No one ever called her
a Goddess.
Scheme | AXXXX XAXXB ABXBX XXXXC XXXXB XBBCX CXAXX AX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 1101 111101 10100111 111001 1011 10 110101 11111 1000101 1110 1101 1101010 111101 111110 0111 0101 11110111 01011001 111001 10101 00101 11100111 0111111 0101101 1111 0101 1111101 11110101 0101111 11001 01011 111010010 11011111 110101 111010 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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