Analysis of Swim



I’ve lost track of the weeks,
started
losing motivation,
losing momentum.

Or rather gaining momentum?

Moving like a snowball, rolling downhill,
all control lost, spiraling.
No doubt, collision, just around the corner,
waiting betting on my failure.
I’m not frozen yet- and when the snow melts,
I’ll either sink or swim.


Scheme XXXA A XXBBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 10 10010 10010 11010010 101011011 1011100 11010101010 10101110 1110101011 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 327
Words 62
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 1, 6
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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