Analysis of Buried In The Coals
Do you think you’re Heaven worthy
for myself—I never have
The weight I carry pulls me down
and keeps me off the path
I avoid most every mirror
my reflection haunts me still
With eyes that stare like piercing lasers
to maim, and then to kill
My spirit left in ashes
my kindled soul to burn
Salvation buried in the coals
—from lessons never learned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2018)
Scheme | XX XX AB XB XX XX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010 111101 01110111 011101 101110010 1010111 111111010 110111 1101010 110111 01010001 110101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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