Analysis of Shards of a dry skinned face
Shiven Srivastava 2004 (Winn)
A face in the mirror stares at me demanding more
I glare my dry skinned face down
Suddenly, the lustrous glass shatters into one hundred and one shards
I watch in terror as each one starts writhing violently
They change form, becoming something alive
They rise in the air and wait, each one examining me like prey
They zoom towards me, their vampiric thoughts blocking the sound of my screams
Slicing my dry skin and my eyes, they take and take and take
Feasting on my veins, my life
Boiling tears and drops of crimson roll down my pores, but they don’t give two fucks
They keep coming for me, demanding one hundred and one percent
Balled up in the corner of my endless prison of torture, free of windows or doors
No lion covered man will ever come to save me
To save me from my dry skinned face
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLDM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100101110101 1111111 10001011001110011 110101111101000 1110101001 1100101110100111 11011101011001111 10111011110101 1011111 101011101111111111 1110110101100101 110010111010110111011 1101011101111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 636 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 150 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem abou my unsatisfiable perfectionism.
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Written on July 01, 2022
Submitted by Shiven428 on July 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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