Analysis of Misery
This misery does not like company
Though I meet it for coffee each morning at 6
It shuns the beseeching touch of others
Though each night we sleep entwined like lovers
Or vagrants huddling together for warmth
This misery turns all words of praise to spite
Though it hovers by my shoulder all day like a proud parent
Or a voyeur perversely pleasured by my failures
This misery has filled the cracks in me
It seeps like sap and sets
My phantom lover this misery
Whose company does not but stain
| Scheme | ABCCDEFCAGAH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100111100 11111101101 1100101110 1111101110 11010001011 11001111111 111011101110110 10101011110 1100110101 111101 110101100 11001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 497 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Written on October 31, 2021
Submitted by lameinsane on November 02, 2021
Modified on April 19, 2023
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