Analysis of SLEEP WALKING LIKE IN DRUNKEN LURCH



The year just gone today
the Twentieth of July Twenty Twenty One
It’s been a tumultuous year
after my Bonnie had passed away.

It has knocked me sideways.
It’s as if I have been sleep walking
in drunken lurch sways
Like an ink spot spreading
of my deepest scathes.

Its been the greatest of challenges,
at the darkest of times for my passages.
My daughter had passed away
to oblivion a year ago today.


Scheme AXXA BCBCB XXAA
Poetic Form
Metre 011101 01001110101 1101001 101101101 11111 111111110 01011 111110 11101 110101100 10101111100 1101101 10100010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 395
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 4
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 25

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Grief Loss. Melancholy

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Submitted by badal.pal on July 23, 2021

Modified on April 25, 2023

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