Analysis of Quicksand
Sinking
So close
Reaching for a hand
No one is there
Climbing
Think I found it
Happiness, but wait
Heaviness
Holds me down
Sinking
Try again for the top
Sliding down to the emptiness
Stuck
Like quicksand
| Scheme | AbcdaefbgAhijc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 11 10101 1111 10 1111 10011 1 111 10 101101 10110100 1 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 204 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on February 10, 2022
Submitted by nicoleg05 on February 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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