Analysis of Drowning
Dimming thoughts of happiness
where laughter can't be found.
Fighting through the anger,
slowly waiting to drown.
Gasping for eternity
with not a drop of air in sight.
The bubbles descending higher
as the daylight fades to night.
The coldness overtaking
what warmth was once a blaze,
as embers fizzle softly
under a cloudy haze.
"Better days will come"
"It's not as bad as it seems"
how long will I continue to plummet,
til the light begins to beam.
I guess for now I'll keep drowning
and slowly fading away.
I'll never be who I was before,
but that's completely okay.
Scheme | ABCDEFCFGHEHIJKLGMNM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1011100 110111 101010 101011 1010100 11011101 01001010 101111 010100 111101 1101010 100101 10111 1111111 1111010110 1010111 11111110 0101001 110111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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