Analysis of My Sins He Forgave
I stare in the mirror,
And the devil stares back
Laughing and sneering,
His taunting attack
“I bought you, I own you,
Now run, try to hide
Your soul has been mortgaged,
Your spirit denied”
I run through the barn,
And come back with a brick
At the silvery glass,
I throw and then kick
The pieces all scatter,
And smash on the floor
As a roar can be heard,
From the rafters and more
A fire has started,
The hay loft ablaze
With bats in the air,
The demon has raised
I reach in my shirt,
For the cross round my neck
For my Grandmother’s promise,
To preserve and protect…
And the heat that it carries,
Burns bright in my hand
As I point it aloft,
At the horns that now fan
“A Rosary upon you,
Return to your cave
My faith is restored,
—my sins he forgave”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Scheme | ABXB CDXD XEXE AFXF XXXX XXXX XXXX CGXG X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 001011 10010 11001 111111 11111 111110 11001 11101 011101 101001 11011 010110 01101 101111 101001 010110 01101 11001 01011 11011 101111 111010 101001 0011110 11011 111101 101111 0100011 01111 11101 11101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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