Analysis of And if we die tomorrow
Olivier Dochez 1976 (Sint-Agatha-Berchem)
My eyes are red
My ribs are cracked
My lips are bruised
My hands are weak
My soul is sleepy
My legs are numb
My lungs ache
With each lonely breath
My poor heart is tired
Yet it keeps on beating
And so I will follow its rhythm
Let it guide me home
Scheme | XX XX XA XX XX AX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1111 1111 1111 11110 1111 111 11101 111110 111110 011110110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 251 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
This is a very personal poem, like so many of mine, it is the first poem I have written since I separated from my partner and lost everything. I was very low and with a death wish, but I also was in huge emotional and physical pain, these lines just came out. I still feel it is a clumsy poem but it shows that we all need to restart at one point, even when we are at our lowest.
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Written on January 08, 2016
Submitted by ColorizedHive on July 31, 2023
Modified by ColorizedHive on July 31, 2023
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