Analysis of Pain
I grieve for you
I grieve for me
I grieve for the life that will never be.
My pain is great
Looking back, near unbearable
And in the here and the now
new pains grow over the old.
The wound never heals
The pain never stops.
| Scheme | XAA XX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 1110111101 1111 10110100 0001001 1111001 01101 01101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on November 13, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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