Analysis of The Curse
No curse now binds my heart and face
But once I was the sadly damned
Who drifted there from land to land
Who spread my hopeless, thoughtless hate.
While pain is not excuse for cruelty,
It explains those broken desperate thoughts,
And do you see that forgiveness ought,
To be derived from common pain.
The curse had stemmed from darkened hands,
From faded flowers on the couch,
From days I had to live without,
The love I wished to be my own.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 11110101 11011111 11110101 111101110 101110101 011110101 11011101 01111101 11010101 11111101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Written on January 14, 2022
Submitted by HermioneHerondale on January 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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