Analysis of What of it?

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



Shoals cross my mind.
I try connecting to bliss.
What's this sadness I'm feeling?
Changes procrastinate and hiss.
I'll wait for them to carry me with them.
Into their watery abyss
And disintegrate into the slow rush.
Down they'll push me, past creatures noones ever seen. That I'll never glimpse.
Ones with neon lights and illuminated forms.
Below the calls of whaleships and carefree cruising holidaymakers glasses.
And the solemn helicopter rescuers that search in vein, bellowing my name at the echoes of lost lives.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101011 1110110 1001001 1111110111 01110001 001001011 1111110110111101 11101001001 0101110110110 0010100101101100111010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 519
Words 94
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 417
Words per stanza (avg) 85
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Written on October 07, 2022

Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on October 07, 2022

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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