Analysis of Stuck



Life on hold while you decided
What will you do? You won't sacrifice your pride.
Everyone else is moving forward every day.
Here I am, I have to stay the same.
I can't move forward.
I can't go back.
I can't find the answers, how did we get so far off track?


Scheme ABCDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 1111111011 101110101001 111111101 11110 1111 11101011111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 251
Words 52
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 193
Words per stanza (avg) 52

About this poem

I wrote this poem 10 years ago when my life was falling apart. Lossing my partner to depression and was struggling to find myself.

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Written on October 10, 2012

Submitted by Tanya.T on October 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Tanya. T

Tanya is a freelance journalist and a disability advocate. Who has been a contributing writer for Little Dreamers Australia. Tanya writes poems drawing on her life experiences to tell her story more…

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