Analysis of Strong Now I Stand



Drowning in Guilt, to the hilt, I Lay
Lifeless Upon the Beach of Decay.
With one last request, which was
To rise & Live again!
And as I rose from my repose,
With the Chaos that I chose,
Addictions led to Traumas
Getting Exposed,
Mixed with Drama
And Emotional Blows.
Taking the Easiest way to cope,
Smoking weed & Using dope,
Led me down a long hard Road.
Yet transformed me
To Warrior Mode.
Lifeless I Lay,
Strong Now I Stand,
Life lessons learned
That I understand.
Changing me
From who I used to be.
I'm now a strong-standing,
Blooming Tree!


Scheme AABCDDEFGDHHIJIAKLKJJMJ
Poetic Form
Metre 100110111 100101101 1110111 11101 01111101 1010111 0101110 1001 1110 001001 100100111 101101 1110111 1011 11001 1011 1111 1101 1101 101 111111 110110 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 548
Words 118
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 421
Words per stanza (avg) 101

About this poem

It's about my recovery from alcohol & drugs. How I found out childhood traumas had led me to severe Addictions in my teens and twenties. The hard road of Recovery made me stronger.

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Written on July 16, 2023

Submitted by spencerrocks on July 17, 2023

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