Analysis of grief
grief is begging to be forgiven, and
believing you do not deserve it.
it is rearranging your internal organs and
acting as if you are not choking on the inside.
it is a valid pain- a beautiful agony- it is
scars we inflict upon ourselves for love.
what is more bittersweet than knowing
that those we lost stay with us after all?
grief is dressing our bleeding wounds with
roses, and watering the flowers with our pain.
hurting for love is not really hurting, is it?
it is life’s biggest pleasures and joys,
just with another mask and another name.
you cannot just it let it go, just move on,
as where does all this adoration go?
it stays, and it stays, and it lingers still,
fermenting your heart until you’re rotten
and sour, your feelings are nothing but a
shot of poison even to the worst alcoholic.
grief is watching yourself decay and doing
nothing to save yourself. you are septic,
and you would rather not be any other way.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110100 010111011 110101010100 1011111101001 110101010010011 11010100111 11110110 1111111101 1110101011 1001000101101 101111101011 111101001 11010100101 11011111111 111110101 1101101101 0101101110 01011011010 111010101010 11100101010 1011011110 011101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 957 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 734 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 171 |
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