Analysis of THERE’S A WALL INSIDE MY HEAD
With apologies to the Musical
( ‘….about Jamie..’)
In my iterative mind , I sit and ponder
What life is all about, I wonder
So many obstacles make you mad
There’s a wall inside my head
I cannot seem to move ahead
My head is abutting against it
My head has been done in
There’s a wall inside my head
A wall inside my head
My life went to the wall
on Twentieth of July
In the year Twenty Twenty
When my daughter was taken
from me cruelly
There’s a wall inside my head
A wall inside my head
I look up and imagine
what’s beyond that blue sky
Orange and pinkish sheen
Lighter clouds higher high
My anguish cannot hide
Blew my rafters away in a tide
There’s a wall in my head inside
A wall inside my head
I gaze over the waters
The seas and the rivers
Mystical and secretive they are
Astounding creatures deep in there
My loss and grief I survive
There’s a wall in my head inside
A wall inside my head
There’s a wall inside my head
At the end of my journey
At the end of my life
All my dreams shattered
At the altar of the wall
my failures scattered
There’s a wall inside my head
A wall inside my head
A gnawing numbness lingers inside
My deep sense of loss cannot hide
There’s a wall in my head inside
A wall inside my head
A wall inside my head
My soul inside the wall
Wants to scream and crawl
To shatter the wall
In million pieces mauled
To make the heavens weep
But my eyes can not seep
Any tears out albeit
My unrelenting grief
There’s a wall inside
me deep
A wall inside my head
There’s a wall in my head inside
My pent up emotions in crescendo
Are boiling in a simmering volcano
Some day soon the rim will give way
The wall inside my head will sway
Breaking out my deeper wounds
I long to cry like howling hounds
To make the heavens weep
There’s a wall inside me deep
A wall in my head inside
A wall inside my head.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010100 0110 01100111010 111101110 110100111 1010111 11011101 111010011 111110 1010111 010111 111101 110011 0011010 1110110 1110 1010111 010111 1110010 001111 100101 101101 110101 111001001 10101101 010111 1110010 010010 100010011 01010101 1101101 10101101 010111 1010111 1011110 101111 11110 1010101 11010 1010111 010111 010101001 11111101 10101101 010111 010111 110101 11101 11001 010101 110101 111111 1011010 10101 10101 11 010111 10101101 1110100010 11000100010 11101111 01011111 1011101 11111101 110101 1010111 0101101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,814 |
Words | 365 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 7, 5, 12, 10 |
Lines Amount | 68 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
About this poem
Frustrations and loss and grief in life
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