Analysis of Prey
For hours we have driven
down dusty, dirt roads passing
one after another, the rotting animals,
flattened to the pavement.
I count them, one, three, seven, ten.
It’s a means of passing time and
getting you off my mind, momentarily.
You sit in the passenger seat with the
map flattened against the dash and
your navy ball cap pulled low.
The roadkill becomes sidelined when
I realize, the dead animals are not the
ones running from something,
running from another greater animal,
a predator, only to meet death on this
decrepit highway.
I am the one running, driving seventy-five
miles an hour from a predator I cannot
escape no matter how fast I drive.
I am the prey.
The scenes outside the window no longer
tell a tale of death, but one of freedom,
freedom from the hunt, the chase.
You’ve mentioned before what you feel
for me, and though, we’ve known each
other for years, anything more than
friends would surely ruin us.
This little trip we took for summer
fun leads nowhere good, leads to a place
from which I doubt we will return the same
as we left.
I know once we reach our destination,
you’ll go in for the kill
and I won’t stop you.
Scheme | ABXXCDX EDXCEBXXFGXGF HXIXXXXHIXXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 1101110 110010010100 101010 11111101 10111010 1011110100 1100100110 11001010 1101111 010111 11001100110 110110 10101010100 01001011111 0101 110110101001 111010100110 011101111 1101 0111010110 1011111110 1010101 11001111 1101111 10111011 1110101 110111110 11111101 1111110101 111 1111110010 110101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,154 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 13, 14 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 299 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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