Analysis of Hiding from Suicide



I’ve been waiting years for death.
Taking risks where others were
Taken or miss[ed] taken.
Hiding in the shadows
Where I thought you’d
Find me
Un-blind me.

Rewind me
And see if there was a time
When I thought living had become
So hard that I’d just give up
Sink to depths
That were unfathomable
Crawled into dark places
Mind spaces.

Allowed the pain to intensify
As the light slowly faded
Into the distance.
The darkness enveloping
Closing in around me.
That’s where death found me.


Scheme XXXXABB BXXXXXCC XAXXBB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111 1011100 101110 10001 1111 11 111 101 0111101 11110101 1111111 111 1001000 101110 110 01011010 1011010 01010 0100100 100011 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 470
Words 86
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 8, 6
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Written on 2019

Submitted by on August 12, 2021

Modified on April 20, 2023

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