Analysis of What Have I Become?



It's hard to define
What's left inside.
The tears shed off the skin,
My sorrows won't lean.
Again!

I've missed myself for the very first time.
I killed a soulless man last night.
Don't overwhelm me, I can't even speak.
What have I become? It's not more than a brick.

My eyes don't lie,
The air is poison, you can't breathe it in.
Upside's down, ultimate mess to try,
Dealing with a constant feeling to find.

I don't have the will to tear the scars.
Lining in with hell, the nights are too dark.
Take one more shot on me, I'm dead.
These unseen memories won't get out of the head.

I've missed myself for the very first time.
I killed a soulless man last night.
Don't overwhelm me, I can't even speak.
What have I become? It's not more than a brick.

I've lost my dignity to you,
I'm scared to realize.
My days are few,
Come, wash me with the pain, I've no backbone to fight!

Don't tell, you know me,
Don't say, you owe me.
This is something you shouldn't believe,
That it's over.

And it's over!


Scheme xxaxx BCDE fafx xxgg BCDE hxhc iixj j
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 11101 1101 011101 11011 01 111101011 11010111 101111101 11101111101 1111 0111011110 11100111 1010101011 111011101 1001101111 11111111 101100111101 111101011 11010111 101111101 11101111101 11110011 11110 1111 11110111111 11111 11111 111011001 1110 0110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 963
Words 190
Sentences 24
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 24

About this poem

This is mainly based on the people who have been suffering from a mental condition which they can't even explain due to the societal behaviors, societal politics etc. They try to bring it inside but can't, due to the pressure being held to them by the society. It is mainly regarding a depressed person who is trying to survive but is not able to take that state of mind anyway.

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Written on August 01, 2021

Submitted on August 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:04 min read
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Soham Bhattacharya

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