Analysis of Dyeing to live
I’m Living to die
Living for the next high.
Injecting the devil’s juice into my veins.
I’m living life as though I only have days
Hoping I don’t die from this next high.
My body is trembling I need a fix.
Here I go again injecting to live.
I’m fighting this demon that controls me.
I’m struggling with this demon that takes over me.
I’m dyeing to live,
But I always give in.
I’m losing this fight.
Here I go injecting again.
I feel the stick, I’m no longer sick.
I can’t breathe,
My heart is stopping.
What have I done?
My life is coming undone.
I’m praying To God to let me live.
I promise this will be my last fix.
I’m letting go,
I’m breathing slow.
My heart stopped.
I died to live till my next fix.
Scheme | AAXX A BC DD CX XXX XXE ECB FFX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 101011 01001010111 11011111011 101111111 11011001101 1110101011 1101101011 1100111011101 11011 11110 11011 11101001 110111101 111 11110 1111 1111001 110111111 110111111 1101 1101 111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem when my nephew died of an overdose. I put myself in his shoes and wrote of what must have been his struggle.
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