Analysis of Leftovers From A Darkened Life
Leftovers; mottled eggs, darkened
beans, and cultured peas.
What to do?
I live to be screwed.
All about who pays for the food.
Live a life of tortuous memories.
Not to have medicine, a bite to eat, or
a blanket or heat.
What can our 500.00 a month not a
week.
Eat a can.
Get in line.
People live to be failed.
Blood and linen will do a flag.
More than that makes a famine.
Meek in faith.
Death abase.
Failure can make you to ban.
Fight for your life,
To prove you are worth,
More than a miserable man.
| Scheme | XAXBB AXXXX CXX XX XAC XXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010110 10101 111 11111 10111101 1011100100 11110001111 01011 11100110 1 101 101 101111 10101101 1111010 101 11 1011111 1111 11111 11010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 516 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 3, 2, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
I wrote this in a psychiatric unit while I was processing what went wrong to bring me there.
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Written on July 09, 2021
Submitted by Kellytullmartinez on December 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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