Analysis of The Only Cost
Painting myself into an emotional corner
feelings trapped and staid
Family eliminated one by one
old hurts and wounds replayed
Each year a brick in this wall of pain
to shield me from the loss
Isolation my next of kin
—love the only cost
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011010010 10101 1000100111 110101 110101111 111101 0101111 10101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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