Analysis of Bottomless Pit

Zacharey Willman 2006 (San Jose, California)



You, once an Angel, were offered something that’ll take your wings.
Your friends said “just try it”.
“What's there to lose?”
Never your friends but maybe devil in disguise.
But by the time you realize, it’s too late.
The devil chose you? Why? Because you have things going right?
He hates to see that and wants to drag you down.
Down into the abyss of the bottomless pit.
After months of falling and your family growing worried. A rope appears.
Could it be God giving you a second chance?
Either way you don’t hesitate.
You climb the rope and right when you reach the top.
It breaks.
To leave you falling deeper into a bottomless pit.
It wasn’t God, but the devil finding new ways to punish you.
Your family is no longer worried, they declare you gone.
You become frightened because there is no longer an entrance to the pit, just darkness.
All around. Everywhere you look. Nowhere to go.


Scheme ABCDEFGBHIEJKBLMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 11110010101111 111111 1111 101111010001 1101110111 01011101111101 11111011111 101001101001 1011100110010100101 11111010101 1011110 11010111101 11 11110100101001 111101010111101 110011101010111 101100111110110101110 1011011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 905
Words 178
Sentences 23
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 690
Words per stanza (avg) 161

About this poem

The sad truth and theme of the poem is that for some people, no matter how hard you think you're trying, you can’t overcome addiction.

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Written on April 16, 2024

Submitted by zachwill916 on April 16, 2024

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