Analysis of Slip Away



What do you want from me? I have nothing more to give.
Why can't you leave me alone, and just let me live?
It feels like unconscious delirium...bleeding under skin...
I constantly go numb, only to feel pain set in.
I'm always looking for something...always trying to see.
I scream and yell for answers, but no one hears my plea.
Friends I've lost, enemies I've gained.
I've shed more tears, than clouds have rained.
I'm lost in a sea of darkness, a soundless prison.
I can't find myself, nor the stars that have risen.
I'm yelling and calling, growing more blind.
I slipping and falling, losing my mind.
Reach out and save me, before I slip away.
Come out and save me, I stand on the fray.
Help me, I'm slipping..
Catch me, I'm tripping...
I'm slipping away..


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111110111 111110101111 111101101 1100111011110 1110111011 1101110111111 11110011 11111111 110011100110 11111011110 1100101011 1100101011 11011011101 1101111101 11110 11110 11001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 743
Words 140
Sentences 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 568
Words per stanza (avg) 138
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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