Analysis of Conscious Rejection
An endless maze
of mindless reflection
Rises up through the haze
despite conscious rejection
The turmoil inside
never placated
Gives rise to despair
not unrelated
to our own sense of worth
to our own self hatred
An ugly mans problem
lies not in his skin
It lies in himself
in what comes from within
The eye that wavers
and avoids a gaze
yields no respect
homage, no man pays
Another’s true love
will never be tendered
to a self doubting soul
whose own worth was surrendered
to the pressures from within
to the demons self engendered
So swirl the mists
that cloud our minds eye
That blind and confuse us
leaving us slowly to die
And in our final frustration
We can only ask why?
As we search our reflection
in death’s gleaming eye
Scheme | ABABCCXXXXXDXDAAXAXEXEDE XFXFBFBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 110010 101101 0110010 0101 101 11101 1010 1101111 1101110 110110 11011 11001 011101 0111 00101 1101 10111 111 110110 101101 1111010 1010101 10101010 1101 111011 110011 1011011 001010010 111011 11110010 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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