Analysis of Survival
Tonia Mari Babbitt 1980 (România)
While merest thoughts cross my mind
Awry feelings pour; can't bear the grind!
Daylight is blinding, despondency is here...
Can't stop the pain, can't steer the tear!
Overloaded,my train of thoughts derailed;
Soul's deep, burning wounds show I failed.
To feel alive; to wake content I aspire;
To destroy the fire in my soul, I dream, I desire.
While failing, for better I cease to hope.
With life's dark moments I try to cope.
Breathing effortlessly; I feel dead inside:
Im actively going down in a landslide.
Scheme | AAXX BBXX CCDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1101111 011011101 1110010011 11011101 111101 11101111 11011110101 101010011111010 1101101111 111101111 10100011101 1100101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on December 05, 2022
Submitted by toniamari712 on December 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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