Analysis of A Battered Soul
Lost and consumed
Placed in a poisonous cage
Minds’ being sentenced to life
Jagged steel stabs like a knife
Locked the door while walls were built
Threw away the key to hide quilt
Diving
Winds already blown
Head held high
Silenced the thoughts
Swimming
We slipped off the mound
Getting caught in a net of lie's
Look into them dreadful eyes’
Suffocating
Longing to breathe
Stinging rays
We got stuck in current ways
Drowning
Our ship's heart's sinking
Tossed out a raft to keep them afloat
There's no life on this boat
Crashing the shore against waves
All I saw were two open graves
| Scheme | XX AA BB CX XD CX DX CX EE CC FF GG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 1001001 1101011 111101 1011101 10101111 10 10101 111 1001 10 11101 10100111 1011101 100 1011 101 1110101 10 101110 110111101 111111 1001011 11101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,129 |
| Words | 125 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
I was the caregiver for both of my parents. My mom had cancer and had had heart issues. This poem is just random thoughts of it all.
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