Analysis of Cigarettes
You smell like cigarettes and late nights
That cold smell from walks outside
amongst the thick smog of a bustling city
Lighter fluid sparking false hopes in my heart
I might too become an addiction for you
Break my bones and change your mind
Cars roar like untamed monsters of the night
Bottles of gin, vodka and every other liquor subdues our background
Edges grow fuzzy and my world begins to spin
Silvertone notes on the photo films of us
My head below water
I breathe you in deeply
Filling my lungs with poison on every inhale
A knife thrusting itself deeper into my mannequin heart
An eager desperation begging me to light another
Will you miss me when I'm gone?
The soft amber glow of the burn keeping me alive
Sane.
Please don’t leave me in the darkness
I don’t want to be alone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101011 1111111 010111010010 10101011011 11101101011 1110111 111110101 101110010010101101 101100110111 11101111 110110 111010 1011110110001 011001100111001 11001010111010 1111111 0110110110101 1 11110010 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 795 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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