Analysis of There is a Rhythm



There are days where I cannot breathe
I do not know how.
I teach myself how to breathe again
In, and out
I take in the small and beautiful parts of my life
I cough out the rot in my lungs
There is a rhythm to this, a simple thing
In, and out

There are days when I cannot open my eyes
Days when I have to relearn the simple rhythm,

It does not always come easily
Some days I find myself suffocating,
There is nothing beautiful about me when I can not breathe
There is no poetry in my burning skin and my aching head
But the sky is rather beautiful on those days
The breeze that makes me shiver also makes the world sing

I drink water
I go for a walk
I catch the clouds in a net.
In, out
I repeat until I can breathe again
It takes time.
I breathe
I get up
I take a shower
I go for a walk
I listen to music
I breathe
I repeat until it feels less impossible

My skin stops burning,
My head only aches on the bad days
(There are bad days)
I take my medicine
I lick my wounds
I breathe
In, and out
I feel the air fill my lungs in a way I did not know it could.

I was suffocating once.
The rot of the leaves that I rested my head on choked me,
The vines that hugged me softly pierced their thorns into me.
Months passed while the leaves made the soil soft for the flowers,
Months passed until the vines showed their blossoms and removed their thorns from me
I am blooming where I once was unable to breathe,
The world is blooming with me.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 11111 11111101 001 1100101001111 11101011 11010110101 001 11111101011 111110101010 11111100 11111100 111010001111111 1111000110101101 101110100111 0111110101011 1110 11101 1101001 01 1010111101 111 11 111 11010 11101 110110 11 101011110100 11110 111011011 1111 111100 1111 11 001 1101111001111111 111001 01101111011111 0111110111011 1110110111010 11010111100011111 1110111101011 0111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,437
Words 312
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 8, 2, 6, 13, 8, 7
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 186
Words per stanza (avg) 49

About this poem

I wrote this poem this spring after finally emerging from the darkest point in my life so far. I had struggled with self harm, depression, suicidal thoughts, and dissociation for months on end. I had good days a few times a months when I felt somewhere above awful and somewhere below good. I’m the beginning of 2022 and the end of 2021, I started to do a lot of photography and it helped my mental health a lot. This poem was written a few months in to the healing process of my self inflicted trauma. I finally saw the sun again after months with only clouds. 

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Written on April 19, 2022

Submitted by theseumbicarbonate on September 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:33 min read
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Theo Bross

This poet experienced immigration at the age of 5, and shortly after, the split of his parents’ marriage. Through every impossible issue in his life, writing and art provided a safe haven. This especially showed in times of great mental struggle, during when the most disturbing art to the normal is created, and the most comforting art to the weird. more…

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