Analysis of Decay



Our bodies decay from the inside out

Our minds they're unstable from the pain

And through all the hauntedness

I see holiness

The holiness that your soul is


Scheme X X A A A
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 10100110011 1011010101 01101 11100 01001111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 151
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by SparksInTheNight on June 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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