Analysis of My cold water burns me
Daniel Waring 2009 (Mbabane)
My cold water burns me.
I burn in ecstasy; I feel the pain,
wondering if I was ever sane.
Standing as the water burns my skin,
the toll on my body, the ecstasy within.
I want to leave but can't,
I want to live but I won't,
as the walls cave in, I feel condoned.
The water keeps falling, and the pain grows,
pushing and pulling, begging for more.
As the water continues to flow,
I feel the pain deep in my core.
All I could think about were the days of yore
when I could leave, fly, and soar.
The door is right there,
but if I leave, they will all stare,
as I am tangled in a fight between ecstasy and despair.
Will I slowly fall and become impaired?
As the water gets hotter,
and the steam clouds my view,
I wonder and ponder
what happened to everything of value?
And as I burn in the water of ecstasy,
I close my eyes, knowing this will continue endlessly.
Scheme | ABBCC XXX XDXDDD EEEX FGFG AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 1101001101 100111101 101010111 011110010001 111111 1111111 101101101 0101100011 100101011 101001011 11011011 11110100111 1111101 01111 11111111 1111000101100001 1110100101 1010110 001111 110010 110110110 011100101100 11111011010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 862 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 6, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
about addiction and not being able to escape it
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