Analysis of Consumed



There. Searing across my vision.
My entire world flaming. Blistering. Stinking of rotten flesh.
Fizzling out into nothing but charred scabs of brick.
Each tower, which had once peered down upon the world.
Each fortress, which had entombed my impregnability.
Gone. All of it. Consumed.
I groped desperately along the ashen ground.
In search of something. Anything.
Each fragment disintegrated in my grasp and poured through my fingers.
Aided by the streams of tears, they muddied the pile beneath my feet.
All the oxygen had been sucked from the atmosphere.
I was tumbling into the unknown vastness of the universe.
Unable to expand my lungs. Eyes. Flesh. Rending in the hostile cold.
Utterly desolate. Powerless. Unhinged from reality.
Nothing more to hold me to the earth.
Gravity herself had lost her grip.
There I was. Floating. Insubstantial. Aimless. Vacant.
Liberated.


Scheme ABCDDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ
Poetic Form
Metre 11001110 1010110100101101 1001011011111 110111110101 110110111 111101 111000010101 0111010 1100100011011110 1010111110010111 101001111010 1110001001101010 01010111111000101 10010010001110 101111101 100011101 1111000101010 100
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 875
Words 157
Sentences 33
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 699
Words per stanza (avg) 140

About this poem

A short free verse poem about my experience leaving a christian cult and losing everything in order to find true freedom in who I am and the ability to make my own choices without fear.

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Written on February 22, 2022

Submitted by Mickeym228 on February 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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