Analysis of The Pit
In a pit without light
Sits a small and puny sight
It crawls and begs its want to leave
For that it thinks it cannot breathe
Deep below the dark of its mind
Sits the dark flame we saw in time
The desire to live cannot be undone
Even as he cannot do what is to come
The thought of even more brings delight
But as he is there is no might
To think one day he could be free
Yet he cannot be
As when the time comes
He will wither to nothing
As when the dark sees light
There is nothing it can do to fight
As the dark is naught but the absence
To think all it wanted was something
Yet that something diminished it’s existence
As it crawls towards the idea of light
One must wonder
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001011 1010101 11011111 11111101 10101111 10111101 00101110101 10111011111 011101101 11111111 11111111 11101 11011 1110110 110111 111011111 101111010 111110110 11100101010 11101001011 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 534 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Written on November 28, 2021
Submitted on January 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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