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Fear

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Within this place, as you lie awake
You begin to realize your mistake
Darkness surrounds you, you are not alone
Everything you thought is now unknown
Your fears come to life, denying you sleep
Sanity becomes almost too hard to keep
But you hold on, it subsides
You're just happy you're alive
Another night, another day
Hope for tomorrow it will go away
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How does it flow? Does it provoke emotion well?
General Constructive Criticism?
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:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Technique
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Impact

I will be critiquing this poem on behalf of
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Firstly, I apologise for the delay in getting this critique to you. We have been incredibly backlogged.

Now, the crit:
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You have asked the following questions:
1. Does it flow?
2. Does it provoke emotion well?
3. General constructive criticism:

1. Does it flow?
Yes. You have managed to rhyme in a non-distracting way and with no forced rhyme. Because of this it flows very well.

2. Does it provoke emotion well?
Personally I would say no. I didn't feel any fear or anything when reading this. It could have used more fear-provoking imagery to awaken the fear within me, but as it stands it simply reads as a good rhyme.

3. Constructive Criticism:
- In the final line, I would change 'for' to 'that' to keep it more grammatically correct.
- I would punctuate this a bit more to indicate where one should breathe or pause, as with it being a rhyming piece it becomes a bit 'floaty' after a while, like recitation.

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