Analysis of One moment
In this moment everything is frozen still
Everything around me, all the things I've worked for feel real
An unreal dream where fantasy meets reality
A time in need of a decision; it's glory or guts I spill
In this moment I feel the weight of gravity
My whole body shakes violently
Waiting for that one moment to pour out my heart so organized, yet recklessly
In this moment everything I've worked has been channeled into a brief instance
Where time stretches out farther, and so does the distance
My mind races faster than my heartbeat--which makes it a blur
I can't wait to explode!
No one beside me shall make me defer
For this brief moment we begin as equals
Until that gun goes off, and the magic of my work ethic begins to conjure
A combination of speed, form, and tenacity
It creates a storm on rubber; a hurricane of audacity
The smoke hits the air
The shot cracks the crisp silence
I lose everything; every thought, every care
Instinct takes over; civility succumbs to animalistic violence
I'm doing this for me, and the school crest that I wear
In this moment it's now or never
To leave it all on the table; it's all or nothing
In this moment it's sunny days or bad weather
In this moment I must put it all on the line
In this moment I must make everything I've worked for these last four years mine.
In this... One... Moment.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110101101 1001110111111 10111100110 0101100101101111 011011011100 111011000 1011110111111101100 011010111110010110 1110110011010 11101011111101 111101 1101111101 11110101110 01111100101111001110 001011100100 1010111001010100 01101 0110110 111010011001 1011001000111100 1101110011111 011011110 1111101011110 011011011110 011011111101 01101111011111111 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,319 |
Words | 250 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 7, 5, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on August 16, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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