Analysis of The Winter Storm



The Winter Storm.
The wind biting with the cold.
All you do it pray to find someplace warm
Some place safe, a place where you don't feel overwhelmed and controlled.

Controlled by the harsh wind and snow
Overtaking you, and burying you where you stand.
Taking you under and deep below
Where everything seems to be getting out of hand.

But oh the blindness of the snow is the biggest beast.
No amount of your dearests can protect you from this demise,  
No direction can you turn and run to get away from the intensities increase,
And over the roaring storm no one will be able to hear your cries.

And the pressure to keep moving and stay awake as you feel the frostbite
As it takes over leaving you with no strength.
Oh the fright you have when you have the pressure to fight.
The storm knows no limits, goes to endless lengths.

As you lay in the cold you ache for the time when you had a warm fire,
Ache as the memories flood in
You remember and sit there and admire.
Admire the times where you had strength within.

But that time is no more you think,
And you let the cold envelope you in its absolute.
And this is the moment where you rethink,
Will I stop, or continue to execute?

I can not tell you the end.
As there are many ends to the story of the snowstorm,
And I do not know the end, I will not pretend
Of whether you, your loved ones, or I will fall prey to this cold Winter storm.


Scheme ABAB CDCD XEXE FXFX XGXG HIHI JAJA
Poetic Form Pantoum 
Metre 0101 0110101 111111111 11101111101001 01101101 100101001111 101100101 11011110111 1101010110101 10111110111101 101011101110110101 01001011111101111 00101110010111101 11110101111 1011111101011 01111011101 111001111011110110 11010010 1010011001 0101111101 11111111 011011010110 0110101101 1111010110 1111101 1111011010101 011110111101 110111111111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,407
Words 301
Sentences 16
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

It is about suicidal thoughts.

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Submitted by kbeeton07 on October 18, 2023

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