Analysis of The Dark Decay



Deep asleep my heart stops beating,
why am I here this is a mistake.
Lost in darkness my skin is freezing,
I fell asleep but did I wake.
I do remember a porcelain plate,
I held a cup I ate and drank,
Hemlock soup with a Death Cap steak,
Oleander tea and a Ricin cake.
Poisonous dreams betrayal and scheming,
was it dinner that sealed my fate?
Looking down I am not breathing
I feel no sorrow if it ends today.
I see her face but she's not speaking
as I drift into the dark decay


Scheme ABABCDBBACAEAE
Poetic Form
Metre 10111110 111111001 101011110 11011111 1101001001 11011101 1110111 10010011 1001010010 11101111 10111110 1111011101 110111110 111010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 478
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 371
Words per stanza (avg) 96
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Submitted by maraccini.j on February 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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