Analysis of Unspoken
Tied in red ribbons,
Silk woven through her soft flesh-
Her words, imprisoned.
Sealed with sour kisses,
Speech pushed back as if they were
Bloody-lipped secrets.
Left with nothing more
Than scissor-laced promises
And a hand-forced smile.
| Scheme | XXX AXX XAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 1101011 01010 111010 1111110 10110 11101 1101100 00111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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