Analysis of Lost Souls
You can just scream as loud as you will
But know it is only the two of us in this emptiness
And if my words lack purity and trust
Understand humanity is marked by ignorance.
What is it that you see, Am I beautiful?
Do I seem like I deserve such deprived loneliness?
Like depression would ever find comfort in such celestial beauty?
Do you question my presence in this confused ugliness?
For in your eyes I'm too beautiful
A star that is only meant to gleam along the constellations
Together with a strange number of other strange white painted star
Just to be caught in their black holes
Is it not so?
Yet it's you and I facing the same judgement.
Darling I am but a facade
For my Visage is as broken as the world
For my soul is neither black nor white
Beauty has nothing to say
And this heart has holes deeper than any abyss an empty soul can ever mend.
You see I have gone where only beasts trod
Where souls are damned and where gods fought
And yet in the destruction in the pains and cries of it all
I still could not find myself.
A lost soul lost to eternity and paused time
Here's a hand that'll never betray
A hand that knows that even diverged roads
Take by all or by none
End up at the same place.
You're just like me
So lost in the skulls of dead things
You crave someone's approval so much your own,
The roots as well as the trees
The soil is not willing
The mind as well as the soul
Not a person so forgiving
And no God in this oblivion
Yet we hope in astonishment for miracle healing...
That our cuts and bruises would seize to exist
And our desire for death would evaporate and seize to persist.
We took different roads
But we found each other where souls meet
It can only mean the despair
Our desire to quell our thirst done its deed
The touch of suicide for everything
Suddenly got blurry.
Scheme | XAXX BACA BXXXXX DXXEX DXXX XEFGX CXXXHXHGHII FXXXHC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (22%) |
Metre | 111111111 111110011101100 0111110001 010100111100 11111111100 1111101101100 10101101100101010 11101100101100 101111100 011110111010010 0101011011011101 11110111 1111 11101100110 10111001 11101110101 111110111 1011011 01111101100111011101 1111111011 11110111 010001000101111 111111 011110100011 101101001 0111110011 111111 111011 1111 11001111 1110101111 0111101 011110 0111101 10101010 011010100 11100100110010 110101011101 01001011101001101 111001 111110111 11101001 1001011101111 01110110 100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,784 |
Words | 350 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 11, 6 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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