Analysis of Drowning

Anna Paugh

Free verse
Come breathe air into my lungs like you used to
Be my Tylenol so my head will stop pounding
Wrap me in your arms so I can fall asleep
I'm trying to breathe underwater
and I can't
My head hurts
My heart hurts
Let me sleep

Scheme ABCDEFFC
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111111 111001111110 11011111101 11011100 011 111 111 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 221
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 173
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Written on July 03, 2023

Submitted by anna.joy.24 on September 22, 2023

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