Analysis of Suffocating

Farista Sairuv -0001 (Dhaka)



This sterile clean hospital smell

The smell of death

I can't know what life smells like

Not when all around the world there is suffering and there is death


Scheme X A X A
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101 0111 1111111 1110101111000111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 152
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by SparksInTheNight on June 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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