Analysis of Catharsis

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



You readied
for the strike

Straight
to the heart

Clean Cold
Ruthless Bold

A strike
You’d practiced

so many times
It was second nature

You’d gotten bored
Of the standard

Single strike to the vitals

You’d meticulously
Made yourself aware

Of every possible kill point
You were best at it too

You’d do them
right nasty

Toy with them awhile

And when their
struggles and cries

No longer
amused you

You’d rip their hearts
out by the roots

And stomp them
Until they beat

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Scheme XA XX BB AX CD XX C EF XG HE X FX DG XX HX X
Poetic Form
Metre 110 101 1 101 11 101 01 110 1101 111010 1101 1010 101101 101000 10101 110010011 101111 111 110 11101 011 1001 110 011 1111 1101 011 0111 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 548
Words 128
Sentences 1
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Written on 2018

Submitted by Charles2 on September 12, 2023

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