Analysis of Swimming in my brain



I have elastic electric thoughts stretching and bouncing in my brain
Have you ever swam the backstroke
Or treaded in the deep end of your brain
Have you ever tried to tilt the scales by tilting your head back toward the sky
Have you ever swam the backstroke
Or felt the upswing tug of the bungee vine
Have you ever closed your eyes and done it with the notion of a minimalist
Have you ever opened up your brain sails wide to drift off to a place in time
Where silver diamond dolphins dive
Sharply through the melatonin  pockets of your brain
Like foam that pokes up between your toes
On that perfect beach  on that perfect shore
Right before you find your perfect place and swim the backstroke there, then through it


Scheme aBacBdefgahij
Poetic Form
Metre 11010010110010011 1110101 110011111 1110111011101110101 1110101 11001110101 11101110111010101000 1110101111111110101 11010101 101001010111 111110111 1101111011 10111101101011111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 704
Words 133
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 581
Words per stanza (avg) 135
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Submitted on September 25, 2015

Modified on April 30, 2023

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