Analysis of A swim in thoughts



A million thoughts inside my brain
Insecurity, anger,discontent
Fear,anxiety,disappointment.
If I would I would pry it open
and watch the contents fall out and stain my shoes.
I would let them flood the whole world.
My mind is saturated
and I'm careful not to ruminate more,
because if I do it will surely detonate.
I feel the knots,the tangles you cannot untwist.
I feel the tonnes on my shoulders
that no one would find upon themselves to lift from me.
I feel like an ant,
Diminutive and vulnerable to anyone's stumble.
I crumble all these up
And throw them all into a glass bottle that I doubt will hold for long,
I toss it into the deep dark ocean.


Scheme ABBCDBBEBBFGBHIJC
Poetic Form
Metre 01010111 01001 1 111111110 01010110111 11111011 111100 011011101 01111111010 1101101101 11011110 1111101011111 11111 01000100011010 110111 01110101101111111 1110101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 657
Words 136
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 516
Words per stanza (avg) 119

About this poem

This poem recognises mental breakdown and how people can keep it all to themselves because they feel alone

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Submitted by Dikailisa44 on August 31, 2022

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Lisa Dikai

I grew up in an urban area with my mother and two brothers. I love writing poetry because it lets me acknowledge how I feel,calms me down and makes me feel happy more…

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