Analysis of Vessel



I wish I had the power to alter fate, to aid and steer the path away from it. To help those who are taught to be complacent like me. I wish I could be beyond my vessel to be seen only as I wish to be seen. I wish that child so pure could forever stay untainted. I wish I didn't understand the gazes upon me, the ones I wished would go away but then return so I know I am worth. I am worth. Worth what. Worth more than what they see me as. I wish my ever so subtle changes could be understood by them. Why can they not understand the corrosion within this vessel the moment it gets touched by a dirty hand, a subtle touch. An action of dirt and rot. Stop. Why didn't you understand the complacency to do what must be done. If you cannot see what I say then I must listen to your louder words. But all I can do is wish, wish the inevitable won't happen again. But I know a vessel is to be used it's purpose of inevitability to be used. A vessel with a quiet captain is bound to drown against the loud crashing waves.  But screaming into the endless ocean doesn't stop the tides. The fish in the sea are the issue but I am a mere vessel.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010110111010101111111111101011111110111011110111111111111101010101111001010011011111011101111111111111111111111110110101101111111010010011100101111010101011101101111010100100111111111011111111011101111111110010001100111101011111101000100111010101010111101011011100101010101010100110101110110
Characters 1,134
Words 231
Sentences 19
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 875
Words per line (avg) 232
Letters per stanza (avg) 875
Words per stanza (avg) 232
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Submitted by 27jasmine.thompson on December 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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