Analysis of Private - Keep Out!
Cold black sour punches, scolding these features,
falling not just to the ground where my sex
is opened and tormented but to where
the demons hide and laugh, where I cower
inside mad stuttered dreams; awake, asleep.
The air's scratched, it pins me down with malice,
tears laugh away as I evaporate
into madness given with pleasured moans,
someone is screaming as I slip in death
and I wonder who, why don't they help me?
Used and fired across this time's wild expanse
my innocence drowned in the bog of love,
sex, you can call it what you want to now,
it matters not for I am dead inside,
wandering the graveyard forced into me.
Was it today this happened, yesterday,
a million years? Time plays tricks as I close
eyes on nothing-sometimes I hear people
dragging my name across fractured distance,
words thrown in a dance to me as I curl,
shrivel up into this private corner.
Scheme | XXXAXXXXXB XXXXBXXXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010110 1011101111 110010111 0101011110 011110101 0111111110 110111010 011010111 111011101 0110111111 10100111101 1100100111 1111111111 1101111101 100011011 110111010 0101111111 1110011110 1011011010 1100111111 1010111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 346 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on October 24, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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