Analysis of Dancing Strong
Every time she dons her liquid form, she is wild and gloriously lost.
Each day she hopes that there will be another like it.
In my heart I sob purely for her. The only way I know how.
A blazing kaleidoscope of swirling lights of shame and solitude reveals the entire spectrum of her sentiments. All of them pirouetting, spinning, and leaping, uncensored.
Words that can’t be said out loud, raw words, pure words, blinding her, in her head.
There is an Inner thunder raging and she wonders if she is dreaming because only she claims it.
Life should be erasable, she thinks. At times it is the most desperate notion she has ever conjured
If she can learn how to dim the kaleidoscope to unveil shallow hues, bright only on command
Perhaps for once hell’s lights will not outshine the illuminations inside her head, preventing her from her obligation to remember how he……….
Scheme | XAX BXA BXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110101111010001 1111111101011 0111110100101111 0100101101110100100101010100111110010010 11111111111100001 1111010100110111100110111 1110100111111011010111010 11111110010101101110101 011111111010101010010010101011 |
Characters | 881 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 77 |
Words per line (avg) | 17 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
This poem was written around 2014 and focuses on a young woman dealing with with a childhood trauma.
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