Analysis of The Mountains
All these mountains I have to climb
With no guidance, many walls I find
Everything becomes too tall
Another insurmountable incline
I have found that when I rise
You push me down into a pit
I scramble to the the top
But never really filling it
You make me strong, only to make me weak
I try to find my underneath
For what was there before
There is nothing there at all.
I can’t find the light, I am suffering
I lose track of where I should begin
You are a mountain, I never win
You are the pit I have fallen in.
I wish I had the tools to follow through
With everything you gave me, I am still losing
I don’t know where to go
All these walls are just one empty hole
I am no longer here, I have given in.
| Scheme | XXAX XBXB XXXA CDDD XCXX D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101111 111010111 100111 010010001 1111111 11110101 1101001 11010101 1111101111 1111101 111101 1110111 1110111100 111111101 110101101 110111100 1111011101 11011111110 111111 111111101 11110111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 732 |
| Words | 158 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
There are moments where difficulty arises and those are the times where we and others test our resilience. Sometimes we win and sometimes we give in. The giving in is a moment that we have to rise or be broken. Life is testing and it is hard. This was a moment where I felt weak but writing makes me strong.
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Written on February 28, 2023
Submitted by Jacquelinefisher on February 28, 2023
Modified on April 28, 2023
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