Analysis of These walls



All these walls surround me and pound me, confined by the sounds falling in these walls. Feeling geeked out and tripping my balls,
Doing line after line feeling nothing at all a yet,
I’m still staring at these walls


Scheme ABA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1110110110110110011101101011 10110110101101 1110111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 218
Words 41
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 57
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 172
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

This was from a dark time of my life many years ago..

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Written on June 18, 2001

Submitted by Kansasbeerparty on December 04, 2024

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