Analysis of Set me adrift
Symbolism turned to cynicism
Cynicism turned to skepticism
Bravery turned to wavery
Adult turned to adulterer
Pursuit turned to falter
Calamity from family
Joy into rape
Gay to rage
When all these words are put together this tells my story.
But just barely...
This treads the water, and you’ve still got many depths to go, and many tides to travel...
Before you reach the bottom of my sea of my desired reciprocity...
My waters run deep and rough...
If you are to traverse this voyage I suggest you tread lightly...
and be Leary as you may want to turn back...
But you cannot turn what tides been broke...
And by this time your in too deep and the anomaly that is my life will have taken over...
There is a way out for you...
So either turn back now or tread lightly...
Otherwise... End up...
Like me...
A prisoner of your own making...
Freedom gone!
Independence drifted away...
Individuality run out of duality...
Engulfing calamity...
And then you will carry shackles & chains that make sharp reminders with every move...
All this in the ocean makes you never wanna swim...
And this is why I’ve set adrift no escape, no land near...
No loved ones to hold me when I tear, loved ones that are supposed to hold you dear...
But alas this is my fear...
That I never find home, set adrift for a millennium....
Never to find any of em...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011100 10011100 100111 01110100 011110 01001100 1011 111 11111101011110 1110 110100111101110101110 0111010111110100100 1101101 1111101101011110 01101111111 111011111 011110110001001111111010 1101111 1101111110 1011 11 010011110 101 0101001 0001001110100 0100100 01111010111101011001 1100101110101 01111101101111 1111111111111011111 1011111 111011101100100 10111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,310 |
Words | 242 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 33 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,011 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 242 |
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