Analysis of Normal



It’s like my tears have a path they travel down my cheeks, they fall so often.

My fingers have indentions from fiddling with an object for so long.

I was going to be diagnosed with a heart condition because it never stays right.

What are nails?

It takes more muscles for me to smile than to frown.

I have a bruised knuckle that ‘I don’t know what happened’ isn’t the phrase anymore

‘Okay’ is the only energy I have left to fight with.

Conversations to stay in contact just to become more detached at the end of the discussion.

Someone asking how my day is, for me to get defensive like they wanna know my business.

Was I really a happy go lucky person? How is it that I’ve let myself get consumed with such evil and dark that I can’t stand myself?


Scheme A X X X X X X A X X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111110111011111110 110111101110111 111011011010100111011 111 111101111111 110110111111010101 11010100111111 0101101110110110110010 1101111111101011101110 111001011010111111110111100111111
Characters 775
Words 145
Sentences 10
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 58
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

It’s about dealing with depression

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Written on September 18, 2021

Submitted on September 18, 2021

Modified on March 16, 2023

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