Analysis of BOTTOMLESS PIT
Do you know why I smile all the time?
Because I know the end of the fall,
I hit the bottom of the bottomless pit,
Yet here I am now among the clouds.
I don't know which is worse,
The long helpless fall,
Or the hit that breaks you into a million pieces,
Yet here I am now, among the clouds.
I smile all the time because the worst is behind me,
The biggest fears of my life, I have lived,
The bottomless pit swallowed me whole,
Yet here I am now, among the clouds.
I smile because I survived the fear of the fall,
I overcame the fear of heights as I fell through the darkness,
Many miles down for years without wings,
Yet here I am now, among the clouds.
I smile because I survived the fall,
The echoes of my screams didn't drive me insane,
The heaviness of the tangible darkness didn't crush me,
Yet here I am now, among the clouds.
I smile because I survived the the hit,
All the million pieces retained a part of my soul,
Broken and scattered yet somehow more connected than ever,
Yet here I am now, among the clouds.
I smile because I know nothing can kill me,
The strength of my soul is well known to me,
Even when my legs are stuck at the bottom of the bottomless pit,
My soul is always among the clouds.
Scheme | xabC xaxC dxeC axxC axdC bexC ddbc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 011101101 11010101001 111110101 111111 01101 1011110101010 111110101 1110101011011 0101111111 010011011 111110101 110110101101 110101111111010 101111011 111110101 110110101 010111101101 0110100101011 111110101 1101101001 1010100101111 10010111010110 111110101 11011110111 0111111111 10111111010101001 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,214 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
This is to never worrying because it can never get any worse than what you have already lived through.
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