Analysis of Buried Away
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
As the nights wore on,
The dread only grew.
The shadows danced
Tauntingly around her,
Their tendrils reaching out
And twining themselves
Around her sanity.
Nightmares and night terrors
Plagued her,
Leaving her gasping for breath
And drenched in sweat.
She couldn't control them
And couldn't understand
Why they were happening
Now.
The question
Kept nagging at her:
Was she losing her mind?
Was the past
Finally catching up with her?
Her heart raced
As she wondered
If all those years
Of locking her memories
Away
Were finally taking their toll.
She couldn't shake the feeling
That she was caught
In a nightmare
That she couldn't escape,
That the demons lurking
Within her mind
Were finally
Clawing their way out.
With every passing day,
She felt more
And more
That her grip on reality
Was slipping.
It was like trying to hold onto sand;
The harder she tried,
The more it slipped through her fingers.
Was it all in her head,
Just a psychological reaction
To the horrors
She'd buried away for so long?
Or was it something
Much worse?
As the panic set in,
She grasped
With any semblance
Of control she could find,
Clinging to routine
And familiarity.
But even that was slipping away,
Leaving her drowning
In a sea of uncertainty and fear.
She didn't know how much longer
She could hold on,
How much more she could endure.
The nightmares and night terrors
Were becoming more intense,
More relentless,
And she began to wonder
If there was any escape
From the darkness
That had consumed her.
Her mind was racing,
A never-ending cycle
Of questions and doubts,
Leaving her feeling
Trapped and helpless.
For now,
She could only hold on
And wait,
Hoping that somehow,
Someway,
She could find a way
To hold onto her sanity
Before it was too late.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) Etheree (29%) |
Metre | 10111 01101 011 1010 11101 01001 010100 10110 10 1001011 0101 110011 01001 110100 1 010 11010 111001 101 10010110 011 1110 1111 1100100 01 01001011 1101010 1111 001 111001 101010 0101 0100 10111 1100101 111 01 101110 110 1111011101 01011 01111010 111001 100100010 1010 11001111 11110 11 101010 11 11010 101111 10101 00100 110111001 10010 0011010001 11011110 1111 1111101 010110 0010101 1010 0101110 1111001 1010 11010 01110 0101010 11001 10010 1010 11 111011 01 1011 1 11101 11100100 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,814 |
Words | 389 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 19, 14, 12, 12, 8 |
Lines Amount | 80 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Written on June 05, 2023
Submitted by JoeStrickland on June 05, 2023
Modified by JoeStrickland on June 05, 2023
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