Analysis of Fighter

Dawn Pahides 1987 (West Virgina)



her face is damp
and her eyes are red,
the thoughts running through her mind
are saying she's better off dead.
nothing is going right
everything went wrong,
the waves crashing into her
are becoming way too strong.
she's a fighter
she'll never give in,
but they way things look like now
there's no way she will ever win.
will the next wave
swallow her whole,
will it take just her body
or will it also steal her soul?
will she be able to stand
life's horrible might?
is peace near or
is it just an ongoing fight?


Scheme ABCBDEFEFGHGIJKJLDMD
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 0111 00111 0110101 11011011 101101 1011 0110010 1010111 1010 11010 1111111 11111101 1011 1001 1111010 11110101 1111011 11001 1111 1111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 511
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 399
Words per stanza (avg) 98

About this poem

I wrote this during a very dark place in my life.

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Submitted by dawnp.96396 on February 10, 2022

Modified on March 15, 2023

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