Analysis of Drenched and Drowning
Drenched and drowning
without the water,
seared and scraped
with no blood to see,
beaten and bruised
without the mark,
alone and abandoned
with people all around.
Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 01010 101 11111 1001 0101 010010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 155 |
Words | 27 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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