Analysis of Escape.



Pilgrim you leave my beach
And on this dying of waves
you make shreds of delirium
And in the midst of darkness
The presence of the abyss
Pick up pieces of anguish
And without doors or windows
On waves of small deaths
I am assailed by a geography of tears
It is my absence in your chest
Penitent escaping threads of catastrophe.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 0111011 11110100 0001110 0101001 1110110 0011110 11111 110110010011 11110011 100010110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 327
Words 62
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 265
Words per stanza (avg) 62

About this poem

The poem was published in 1999.

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Written on May 05, 1999

Submitted by angeloacosta2010 on March 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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