Analysis of Chasm
Standing on tip toes,
Placing a foot on the bridge,
Above all my woes,
'Til the death march blended,
And the skeletons are beneath,
The tiles breaks, and I landed,
Down on the bottom,
On the pit,
Grave writ,
On the pit,
Down the chasm.
See the vines,
Down the mines,
See the hands,
Down the land,
They are on you,
They're chasing you,
All the way into the chasm.
The fall is not long,
That's what I say,
There's nothing wrong,
That's what I say,
It's all false,
False in the eyes of the lost,
Lost deep in the chasm.
I'm okay,
The dark won't creep behind me,
I'm fine,
The torches in the cavern,
They give way to paths to see,
But what are they to me?
Scheme | axabxbc DdDc eexxffc gHgHxxc hixxii |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 1001101 01111 101110 00100101 0110110 11010 101 11 101 1010 101 101 101 101 1111 1101 10101010 01111 1111 1101 1111 111 1001101 110010 11 0111011 11 0100010 1111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 7, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
This poem is about the feeling of anxiety in a situation, that we tell ourselves that it'll be alright, even though we're yrembling and sweating as we hold onto our bets.
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Written on July 19, 2023
Submitted on January 14, 2024
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