Analysis of Frayed Edges
Pain in heart
You turn away,
Yet I'm begged just to stay,
In your heart you must weep,
For the cuts are so deep,
You bleed on...
Believing in no cure,
When your heart is so pure,
But your mind has won,
Come what may,
And let go what will,
The truths you say,
Wait on your heart's sill
'Till you believe,
It won't be still,
I bleed on...
| Scheme | XAA BB C DDX AEAE XE C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 1101 111111 011111 101111 111 010011 111111 11111 111 01111 0111 11111 1101 1111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
A kindly reminder.
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Written on July 10, 1998
Submitted by WitheringSurface on November 24, 2022
Modified on April 04, 2023
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