Analysis of Drown
I will sleep with
my eyes o p e n .
I will breathe u n d e r w a t e r .
I will drink my coffee c o l d if that is
what it takes to become less like y o u .
The thought of being like you is so p a i n f u l , I'd
rather d r o w n .
Loving you is the most painful memory-I'd rather
p e e l off my skin in the places you left your kisses. The places
you bit and licked and left your
l o v e .
Some say, "it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
I cannot bring myself to agree with such words, because the pain of loosing you
was far too much to bear than the idea of never having known you.
Call me a fucking coward for running away from this pain,
but if I have to face it another day,
I would rather
d i e.
Scheme | ABCDEFBGHIJKEELMGJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 111111 111111111000111 1111101111111 11110111111 01110111110111111 101111001 10110110100110 1111111001011110010 1101011 1111 1111101110111110111 1101110111101011101 111111100101101011 110101011001111 11111110101 1110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 537 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 188 |
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Written on 2016
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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