Analysis of Living through the amber stained shot-glass
Living through the amber stained shot-glass...
I never thought a person could get lost in a space so small...
But I loved someone who learned that the bottom was as bottomless as a well.
That sent him to a place...
like, well...
Hell.
I never wanted to see it happen to my best and only friend...
But you must understand that the stains on the glass...
Left my blood all over Him and his hands.
Hate him, I can't...
But love is a vague memory...
Because the true living love had been beat out of me.
Written by:
Donna Sue Myers - May
Scheme | AXB XBB XA X XCC XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111 110101011100111 111111101011100101 111101 11 1 11010111101110101 11101101101 1111101011 1111 11101100 0101101111111 101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
This was a month in a domestic violence shelter. After fiance was arrested. Writing this was real therapy.
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Written on November 24, 2004
Submitted by donnasmay61 on May 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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