Analysis of LIFE... swimming in fear
Tracey l Coleman 1969 (n.h.)
what do i have to do? to finally be free.
spreading my ashes from the sand to the see.
see if you wade in , you get no rush, you are simply consumed with all that surrounds you. "like things on a shelf".
however if you dive, it will cleanse you thoroughly of all lives debris.
Speeding ahead not feeling the wrath.
so if you had it to do all over again,
what would you do?
sink or swim?
| Scheme | AABACDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111110011 10110101101 11110111111100111101111101 10111111110011101 100111001 111111111001 1111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
About this poem
i wrote this a long time ago. i feel after all the passing years that it still resonates during those years and today as well.
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