Analysis of Drowning in Love
I don’t think I fell for you slowly,
but then again,
I don’t think I fell for you all at once either.
If I had to guess,
I’d probably say
that my feelings for you
we’re like the steady tides of the ocean;
ebbing and flowing right beneath the surface
of all of our interactions.
Sometimes they threatened to pull me under,
and drown me in the intensity of it all,
sometimes I could forget they were there altogether;
dulled down to a soft pulsing ache between my ribs.
If you ask me,
I wouldn’t be able to tell you the exact moment I “fell”
but I do remember one specific thing,
a small, seemingly insignificant moment,
where water rushed past my lips
and filled my lungs.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHICJCKALMNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110 1101 111111111110 11111 11001 111011 0101011010 10010101010 11110010 0111011110 011000100111 011101101010 111011010111 1111 111101110011011 11101010101 01100010010 1101111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 523 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
About this poem
This is a poem about my first love. An indescribable experience for many, I put mine into words as best as I could!
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