Analysis of The Writers Block



A writers greatest fear:
Harder to climb then the highest mountain,
able to withstand the brightest star,
a bite nobody can chew,
yet cannot be seen from afar...
but once a fellow writer
looks the other way,
The Writers Block is gone...


Scheme ABCDCEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 1011101010 101010101 01111 11011101 1101010 10101 010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 237
Words 49
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 184
Words per stanza (avg) 42

About this poem

Every writer experiences a lack of inspiration every once and a while; this poem expresses those feelings.

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Written on May 17, 2023

Submitted by bcorratti on May 17, 2023

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Cate Barker

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