Analysis of Born in Torment
A poet’s words are born in torment
And a love that’s unrequite.
Sadness grips the unformed verses
In the darkness of the night.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 00111 10100110 0010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 128 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
Just enough to stop me weeping.
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Written on May 27, 2017
Submitted by richard.daish on August 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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