Analysis of Sleeping with the Devil
I invite the devil to bed with me.
It was a stormy night.
The rain washed me into his arms.
The devil is warm.
I try to maintain a sense of composure,
but my heart beat slows when the ice freezes over.
I hang on to his warmth
to fight the cold.
Street lamp illuminates my bedroom window.
I write by the glow of the rain.
The devil twitches in his sleep.
No comfort for takers.
No justice for liars.
I pray for something to pray for.
Numb from the cold,
there is no hope in my room tonight.
Wash me away, island storm.
Ocean swell and steal my vessel.
Free my being from this endlessness.
Restless, now as the devil barley stirs,
I give until I am nothing.
Empty apologies warrant empty forgiveness.
The lightning reveals I am barely anything left.
Scheme | XABCDDXE XXXFFXEA CXBFXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101111 110101 01110111 01011 11101011010 111111011010 111111 1101 110101110 11101101 01010011 110110 110110 11110111 1101 111101101 1101101 10101110 1110111 1011010101 11011110 1001001010010 010011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
About this poem
I wrote this during the storm a couple nights ago.
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Written on January 10, 2022
Submitted by alexandreabailey1 on January 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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