Analysis of Sharp as a knife
Emotions, sharp as a knife
They cut deep, they hurt deadly
Sometimes your skin, sometimes your heart
As pale as they sound, they also give rejoice
Yet Wish I felt no emotion, neither owned a heart
But beware, without your knife
You're no different than a rock
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 1111110 01110111 11111110101 1111101010101 1010111 11100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 262 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
About this poem
This is a poem regarding the fact that emotions are what makes you human, yet they have the ability to make you hurt and sometimes you wish you didn't have them. again, I am not happy with poem because it was just the start of my poetry era.
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