Analysis of Survival



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
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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