Analysis of Consumed
Alicia Owens 1963 (SC)
All encompassing – eaten alive
Blackness despair can’t breathe
Tears, oh the tears
My chest it hurts it tightens it struggles
No clue it would be like this
Where did the escape go, the freedom
The hope, the joy: there’s only despair
If I’d know it would be like this
Would I have gone ahead anyway?
Scared, consumed with grief
Sadness, tears, pain, fear, hurt
So much negative where is the positive
Is that all there is
Will there be more
When will it lesson
When will the hurt go away
When will the freedom come
Where is the light
Consumed by darkness
When will it end
CONSUMED
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001001 100111 1101 1111110110 1111111 110011010 010111001 11111111 11110110 10111 101111 11100110100 11111 1111 11110 1101101 110101 1101 01110 1111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 457 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on March 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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