Analysis of Senses



If I could I would climb
But this weight, drags, defeats, deforms my flight out
If I could I would swim
But this water is white, whirling weight down my way under
There is no way around this. My state of stuck here
My frozen fight, My fight, fought, forgotten here
I can smell survival, stuck here, smell survival out there.

Memory is not held in your mind,
locked in the recesses of your brain.
Instead, it’s held in your print,
Polished, stained this body
My hands maneuver his intentions, avoiding his hold
But the tremor takes on, tainting my feel for life
Wiring my mind and
Can mold me, shape me, squared
My bones bend, they build this dimension by dimension
These veins vere to the side of steel sticks, enclosed
These eyes roll, illuminating the industrial tone of my walls

I just want out

This heart, it pushes and pumps fear into this cathedral,
This holy place upon the rock, alone, it stands over me
I just want out
I can't leave this prison
I can't leave this cell
I can't leave this body
I can't leave these cells

I have been trying to tell you, -


Scheme xaxxbbx xxxcxxxxdxx A xcAdxcx x
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 1111011111 111111 11101110111110 111101111111 11011110101 11101011101011 100111011 100100111 0111011 101110 11010101001011 101011101111 10110 111111 1111110101010 11110111101 1110100001001111 1111 11110011011010 110101010111101 1111 111110 11111 111110 11111 11110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,042
Words 199
Sentences 4
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 7, 11, 1, 7, 1
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 166
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted on October 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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