Analysis of Dialectical Float Therapy (DFT)
enter for sensory satiation
the lucidity of salinity.
look past your eyelids to where
the new cranial nerve is formed.
where vagus and optic rewire
to produce soul vision.
remind yourself to blink.
where you become a blue lily pad of mercury
in the Galilean Thermometer of your life.
where stains only 1100 pounds of epsom salt
could dissolve.
where your buoyant vessel is propelled by the tides
of circadian rhythm
and the tidal volume
of your next sober breath.
the only constant is change.
please fill my cochlea with enough fluid
from the oval window
to vibrate my prefrontal cortex
back
online.
Scheme | AB XXXA X BXXX XXXX X XXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011001 0010010100 111111 0110111 11010010 101110 010111 1101011011100 000100100111 111011101 101 111010101101 1010010 001010 111101 0101011 11110010110 101010 110101010 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 1, 4, 4, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem about my experience with addiction, recovery, and float therapy.
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Written on December 27, 2023
Submitted by hollingsworthheidi on December 27, 2023
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