Analysis of Your Mistress Defiled
Has your violence
taken you to places
I’ve not been
Or driven you
to things
I’ve not seen
Was your soul
mired in conflict
once raised from the dead
Were your walls
built to fortify
excuses and blame
Have your choices
been forged by
damnation and fear
Did love matter at all
when it cried
through the pain
Could you still hear its voice
on those darkest
of nights
Were those places you
conquered
in tribute now damned
Did your victims
kneel down
their heads bowed in shame
Was mercy rejected
your mistress
defiled
Has your violence
taken you to places
I’ve not been
Or driven you
to things
I’ve not seen
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | ABC DEF xgx xhi bhx xxx xxx dxx xxi xxg ABC DEF x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100 101110 111 1101 11 111 111 1010 11101 011 1110 01001 1110 111 01001 111011 111 101 111111 1110 11 01101 10 01011 1110 11 11101 110010 110 1 11100 101110 111 1101 11 111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 643 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 37 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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