Analysis of Unwind



Being alive and living
are actually
pretty different.

I saw a video once
and there was a girl,
a girl that was already dead
on the inside
but wanted to be gone
on the outside too.

She wanted to
just Go,
throw all the cards
in the air.

Her doctor told her:
We all do.
And I realized
he was right.

She was afraid of dying
of becoming
nothing.

She wanted to press pause
but the nice nurse assured her:
Everything is okay.

She said:
Sweetie, you don't die.
You just stop living.

And that hit me
hard,
just how fucking right
she is.


Scheme ABX XXCXXD DXXX EDXF AAA XEX CXA BXFX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (47%)
Etheree  (40%)
Metre 1001010 1100 10100 1101001 01101 01110101 1001 110111 10111 1101 11 1101 001 01010 111 0110 111 1101110 1010 10 110111 1011010 1011 11 10111 11110 0111 1 11101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 538
Words 130
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 51
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Written on January 04, 2024

Submitted by LadyPhantasmagoria on January 06, 2024

Modified by LadyPhantasmagoria on January 06, 2024

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Cas Wilson

Cas Wilson is a twenty-something history and book nerd living in Pennsylvania with their partner. They have been devouring books their entire life with no plans to stop anytime soon. more…

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