Analysis of Blunt Instruments
Your Precious
keepsakes,
trinkets,
memories
all boxed away.
Your lace scarf
glided to the floor,
as you sliced deeply
in to a watermelon.
It bled on the kitchen table,
as easily as you dissected my heart
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110 1 10 100 1101 111 10101 11110 010100 11101010 11001101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 193 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on March 25, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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