Analysis of Bearing The Curse
He died
the day before
his birth
the curse had worked again
Generations
in the womb
their feticide
a last amen
The garden path
a stepford trap
whose fruit trees
bear the scorn
Enoch built
to hide the curse
the Mark of Cain
— damnation born
(The New Room: February, 2024)
| Scheme | AXXB XXAB XXXC XXXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 0101 11 011101 010 001 11 0101 0101 011 111 101 101 1101 0111 0101 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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