Analysis of Drenched and Drowning



Drenched and drowning
without the water,
seared and scraped
with no blood to see,
beaten and bruised
without the mark,
alone and abandoned
with people all around.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 01010 101 11111 1001 0101 010010 110101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 155
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kassandra M. Konecny

Kassandra Konecny is a lover of listening to music, hiking in the mountains, and observing the way people act. She began writing vigorously when she was fourteen and will hopefully never stop. She has had her fair share of trials lately, and tries to encompass nearly every subject there is to study into her writing. Kassandra plans to study creative writing and psychology. She's 17 and currently lives in Utah with her family. Contact her at kassandrakonecny@hotmail.com more…

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