Analysis of Colour of Pain
Blood rabbit runs down leg, burrowing beneath sole.
Sky bite bruises back, howling arch into roll.
Berry juice drilling loose ankle, hip, knee, live trine,
Tangle bramble on running tracks, entwining spine.
Angry sunset melts pelvis into puréed molten marrow.
Captured straiten’d mind, carted away in Satan’s barrow.
Black out brain, jarring jolts lashed by loud lights.
Gasping pig shouts, gnawing spirit of life’s fights.
Roadkill tears stalk chalk face frozen still in space.
Suspicious meadow of respite. Get set, sly pain race.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111100011 11101101011 101101101111 1010110111 10111001111010 101110010110 1111011111 10111010111 1111110101 010111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
About this poem
I am owned by chronic pain every day. It’s hard to describe to someone what it looks like. This was my way to try and convey pain.
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