Analysis of For the haunted



This is for the people like me
The ones sitting with the passion in their heart
But with a raging anxiety inside their chest
With the loneliness and fear
This is for you

I know how you feel
Standing still in a raging world
All you want is to be free of the societies expectations and judgment
You want to be alone, without the sadness of it
You want to find someone who understand
But you know they don't exist
Because who could understand you

And now you just read that line
Frowning that anyone could be unique except you
Well, we are two of a kind then
We both are the lonely
I, the writer
You, the reader
Together we form a bond

We know that life is a struggle
We discovered it at an early age
Reading the writings of the lonely and desperate authors,
we entered this world of constant skepticism and anxiety
But we would not trade it for anything
Because it is who we are now
Engrained in every cell, every DNA strand and every core of our identity
Without the sadness we would never be us

Well, I promise you
We have a gift
To all the depressed, to all the outcast, to all the bookworms
Happiness is the fools treasure
Both you and me discovered it
We are free of the oldest human curse
And it will tempt you
taunt you
ridicule you
and push you to the brink of insanity
In the end, we will find the peace, and what we all crave

I hope you are there


Scheme AXXXB XXXCXXB XBXADDX XXEAXXAX BXEDCXBBBAX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11101011 01101010011 1101001000111 1010001 1111 11111 10100101 1111111100100010010 1111010101011 11111101 1111101 0111011 0111111 101101101011 11111011 111010 1010 1010 0101101 11111010 1010111101 10010101001010 1101111010000100 111111110 01111111 101001100111010011100100 01010111011 11101 1101 1100111011101 10010110 11010101 1111010101 01111 11 101 01110110100 0011110101111 11111 1
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,326
Words 267
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 7, 7, 8, 11, 2
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted by Rasmus.berggren on August 27, 2021

Modified by Rasmus.berggren on August 27, 2021

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