Analysis of Engulfed
All pretenders drowning slow,
lungs to fill with every breath
Casted off amongst the waves,
nothing spoken to redress
Treading water, spewing lies,
legs to flail in wasted states
Choking from each word unsaid
—trailing death within my wake
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 11111001 110101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1010111 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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