Analysis of Paradox Of Loneliness Is Cause & Effect
E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)
I’m drowning in the open air,
I’m suffocating as I breath,
Feeling the burden of nothingness,
And in the nothing I believe.
Because you never looked my way,
Or acknowledged me at all.
I’m the girl who slipped through the cracks,
Who you never noticed fall.
I’m the girl left gasping breaths,
Two decades past your blindness.
I’m the girl drowning in life,
Because you never showed me kindness.
I’m the girl you broke then tarnished,
And had the gall to try to teach.
I’m the girl who sees your truth,
And the lies of which you preach
I’m the girl who nearly burned,
when they said it was all a game.
The one you freed and told not to tell,
Lest they come for me again.
So here I am, I’m drowning,
I’m the girl without a voice.
A junkie hooked on my broken past,
Of which I never had a choice.
Because you didn’t have the strength,
Or even the desire.
To do your job as you know you should,
When you see a child in a pyre.
Scheme | XXAX XBXB XAXA XCXC XXXX XDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 11000101 1100111 100101100 00010101 01110111 1010111 10111101 1110101 1011101 1011110 1011001 011101110 10111110 01011111 1011111 0011111 1011101 11111101 011101111 1111101 1111110 1010101 010111101 11110101 0111101 1100010 111111111 111010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 918 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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