The Spider
back in my room, there's a spider in a jar.
i don't have the heart to kill him,
cruelly.
but suffocation hardly seems
like the kinder option.
he should find himself lucky;
there are no glass walls
in death.
i hope
i wasn't the one
who taught him cruelty.
now in my room, there's a corpse.
there are limbs that won't ever
move again.
i hope
in his next life
i'll find a way to be kind to him.
About this poem
this morning i found a spider on my window. i hate spiders, but i can't bring myself to hurt them.
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Written on March 06, 2024
Submitted by roxykohana on March 06, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xabxcbxx Dcb xxx Dx a |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 3, 3, 2, 1 |
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