Analysis of W.A.Y.



Every inch is bruised / A bruise on every inch
Hands on tile on hands on face
Arms held bitter boarded over stomach
Swollen too much to be healthy
Kill the rabbit / Stuck to my throat
Kill the rabbit / Dripping down my chest
Kill the rabbit / Mouths on wounds on carpet
Ballpoint pens remastered with blood and runoff
Writing manuscripts through my ribcage
In and in and in / Ink pushed into the unlit
It’s swollen too much to be healthy
Too close to my thighs (that’s where
I keep my heart) too close to my heart
(that’s where I kill the rabbit)
Gore on hands on hands on body
Body on blanket on death’s door
Pull it over your head / Kill the rabbit


Scheme ABCDEFGHIEDJKGDLG
Poetic Form
Metre 1001110111001 1111111 1110101010 10111110 10101111 101010111 1010111110 10111101 1010111 00000110101 110111110 1111111 111111111 1111010 11111110 10110111 1110111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 659
Words 129
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 509
Words per stanza (avg) 128

About this poem

A poem about hickeys

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Written on January 26, 2023

Submitted by fef on January 27, 2023

Modified on April 19, 2023

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