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
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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