Analysis of Ice Sculpture
I am a sculpture made of Ice.
I crack and shatter, fall apart and start to melt.
So I distance myself from others,
Become cold to rebuild myself.
I look strong on the outside,
Sleek, marbley ice, like stone.
But deep inside, I’m filled with fractures,
Ready to break at the slightest stress.
The cold makes me slow and weak,
But I’m scared of the warmth, so I push it away.
Little do I know, deep inside the snow,
Something is trying to break free.
With every sunny day, and every warm smile,
I shed another layer of this icy cocoon,
Yet still I fear letting it go.
The creature has been dormant for so long,
Who knows if it’s good or bad, friend or foe.
Fear crystallizes my icy heart,
And I can only ask myself one thing:
What could be worse?
Let out the possibly terrible monster imprisoned in my ice?
Or remain the cold statue I am,
Void of happiness and warmth.
Scheme | ABCDEFCGHIJKLMJNJOPQARS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 110101010111 11101110 0111011 1111011 11111 110111110 101110101 0111101 111101111101 1011110101 10110111 1100101010011 1101010111001 11111011 0101110111 1111111111 11001101 011101111 1111 11010010010010011 10101111 1110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 668 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 165 |
About this poem
I used to fear letting myself get comfortable. I wanted to keep to myself. I would come off rude in hopes people would leave me alone. I was an ice sculpture.
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