Analysis of Faltering



I tread a land so sadly strange
The world around me slowed and changed
I only saw a ghostly haze
Which veiled my melancholic gaze
It felt like rain which pattered lightly
It drowned my sorrow ever slightly
On my florid feet I felt
A marble cold as hail's pelt
Reality I could not waive,
I stood upon a vacant grave
The ground beneath me caving in
My demons clawed against my skin
Consuming me, my very core
My soul was drained, like rain it poured
"Goodbye!" I cried to none at all
Only death has seen me fall
I know now, that when moonlight beams,
I walk within the devil's dream


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKL
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 01011101 11010101 1110101 111111010 111101010 1110111 0101111 101111 11010101 01011100 11010111 01011101 11111111 1111111 1011111 1111111 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 563
Words 113
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 459
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on August 03, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Katie Odell

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.” ― Frida Kahlo more…

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