Analysis of Pica
Abnormally I began, what was I only six,
When I first felt the surge of desire to eat mud with a side order of sticks.
My scourge & my fire, to swallow what I will, only dragged me in, what I shouldn't digest and so much more.
I left nothing to regret, for these crazy cravings, they want what t they get.
One in a million and incurable, I'll feed on what you view as strong and durable, trying in vain to eat all that's inedible, before you say it I'm not gullible, I've just had a gullet full, of all the things you never would like curtain hooks, currency, glass and wood.
Old and locked away in a mental asylum, they say it's best this way but still I break free, out into nearby woods I taste the first tree, that old sensation, tears come in floods, as I resign myself to incarceration.
Yet in my heart and my mind I'm still free, no longer blind or bound by hypocrisy.
At the lapdog of heavenly paradise, with the pearly gates far behind, I sit discussing my disgusting flaws, I hope in my mind I died from natural cause.
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Metre | 0100101111101 11110110101111011011 11110110111101101110010111 1110101111010111111 100100010011111111010010011111010001111111001110101110111011101100101 10101001001011111111111101111110111101011011101110010 101101111111011110100 101110010101011011101010101110111111001 |
Characters | 1,025 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 99 |
Words per line (avg) | 25 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
About this poem
I read an article l e about a old ma in an asylum who used to try & break out so he could eat twigs, bark & all sorts of other worldly things. That affliction is called pica.
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