Analysis of REQUIEM



I measure every grief and swallow every poison my body craves,
I claw on the pieces of my skin leaving scars,
Damp as the red stains the sleeves of my shirt.

It burns and I bask in the space of broken dreams,
I smile with white lies on the remains of the naivety in amusement,
Reaching out into the emptiness with both my hands.

I long, I am longing even as tears pool o my eyes, and my throat hurts,
Wandering stars glides above me,twinkling like the rhymes of the old,
Traversing gently into the depth of the world.

They seem old, a timeless travel of the earth,
I wonder why mother, why does it hurt to live?
I wonder if my soul feels my weight as an easier size?

I wonder how the years on my heart has piled,
And why does time keep at length my smile,
In contrast to relief would I go on aching still? Without a balm to sooth the patience gone long.

The moon a waxing cresent, enlightened through a century of existence,
And I despair in the grief of want, the stream murmurs in a silent flow,
I am enraptured and fascinated; the night a corpse like as the moon rises in the sky.

The leafy greens drenched in the November rain,
Bend down and before the light is a shadowed form,
The mist hangs heavy with the earth's sigh,
I shall be more silent and cold than tonight.


Scheme XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXA XXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101001010100101101 111010111101 1101101111 110110011101 1111110011010010 1010101001111 111110101111110111 10011011101101 010100101101 11101010101 110110111111 110111111111001 11010111111 011111111 010101111110101011101011 010101010101001010 010100111011000101 1101001000101110110001 01011000101 110010110101 011101011 11111001101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,279
Words 274
Sentences 9
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 142
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Modified on May 01, 2023

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