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.


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXX
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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