Analysis of Succumb
We all have black holes,
That chase is around,
They try to swallow is whole,
When we're feeling down,
As though somehow the darkness can soothe all our pain,
We surrender ourselves to the sunless domain.
We resist only slightly,
We're too weak to fight,
The weight of the world has stolen all of our might,
So we succumb to the pressure,
Of those relentless black holes,
Let them claw at our hearts
And devour our souls,
Until nothing is left
But the large gaping space,
Where the beating of our hearts
Used to take place.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11101 1111011 11101 111010111101 101000110101 1011010 11111 0110111011101 11011010 1101011 1111101 0010101 011011 101101 10101101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 411 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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