Analysis of Attempts
It's dark but not pitch black,
I'm here in awe and amused,
There are waves roaring,
Each gushing attempt to reach out,
To inch just a centimetre forward,
Feels like a failure,
A rejection, a denial,
The splutter in their poise,
Getting angrier and fiercer by the second,
They come close, just a moment away,
And I see, the seawater is black,
There is no end to the horizon,
Just some flickering lights far away,
They inch closer,
It's getting started, the massacre,
Scarier the size, more petrified am I,
I move, my feet start trembling,
Backwards, searching for a rescue,
With no direction, sense or purpose,
I run, only to realise,
I'm sinking,
The sand, though fine, surrounds me,
The feet, then the knees,
Suddenly an abyss, I'm down by the chest,
I stop moving, and start drowning,
Only a hand left, from elbow to thumb,
And then, I stopped writing.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJAKJFFLCMNHCOPQCRC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1101001 11110 11001111 111010010 11010 00100010 01011 101000101010 111101001 01101011 111110010 111001101 1110 110100100 1000111011 11111100 10101010 110101110 111011 110 0111011 01101 10010111101 11100110 100111111 011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 655 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem on the edge of a sea shore, all in solitude and wonder. The waves inching towards me inspired me to write this poem. Hope you feel it :)
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