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 |
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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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