Analysis of With Each Lash (MAJOR TW for self-injury)
I drive away
The pain
With every stroke
Of my
Soothing instrument;
I comfort my misery
With each time
I drag that
Coping skill
Across my waiting skin.
I satisfy my hunger
For blood
With every time
I score that
Gleaming object
Anywhere and everywhere
On my skin I can;
I lessen my needy urges
With every gash
I create
With the sharpness
Of my
Handy tool.
I promise to stop
With every scar the
Blade
Leaves behind;
I feel so strangely calm
With every trail
Of red my
No-longer-clean
Device
Generates.
I have temporarily
Ridden myself
Of my everlasting,
Agonizing heartache
With every slit I carve
With my
Weapon;
I wish I could
Control myself
With every time I
Bleed myself open
With that sword-like
Edge.
I tell myself
That I can't escape it
As I sob so angrily
And penetrate
My thin skin layer
With that old,
Familiar,
Awful
Incision-maker;
I am helpless
Against it.
The tide
Of my desperation
To slice myself
Open to die
Crashes over me;
Every time
I feel the craving,
The burning yearning
And I realize
I can’t resist any longer,
So I give in,
Every
Single
Time.
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Metre | 1101 01 11001 11 10100 1101100 111 111 101 011101 110110 11 11001 111 1010 10010 11111 11011010 11001 101 1010 11 101 11011 110010 1 101 111101 11001 111 1101 01 10 110100 101 11010 10001 1100111 11 10 1111 011 110011 1110 1111 1 111 111011 1111100 010 11110 111 010 10 01010 1110 011 01 11010 111 1011 10101 1001 11010 01010 0110 11011010 1110 100 10 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 235 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 71 |
Lines Amount | 71 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 846 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 195 |
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