Analysis of I Held My Breath



One day, the view was so wonderous... I held my breath.
The sun was big and looked so round.
I thought I could see where sky touched ground just a little
better that day... I sighed and my breath
caught in my chest...
no man could do this... it was what God did best.
He must have been having a good day Himself
and didn't want to wait... not put it on a shelf.
God let the world know that He was near,
by putting it out there to be seen...
a sky that was clear.
That day... I held my breath
'til a cloud could be seen.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11011111111 01110111 1111111111010 101111011 1011 11111111111 11111001101 010111111101 110111111 110111111 01111 111111 101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 507
Words 108
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 381
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christiana Carter

I am a mother, grandmother and great- grandmother with a passion for words. School is another passion and I am now trying to get a 2nd bachelor's degree. more…

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