Analysis of Self
Can you feel this pressure?
A repeating emotion;
The thought to disappear still lingers.
Will you be gone without a trace?
Self-inflicted impulses;
With a nervous heartbeat
And a heavy rock around your feet,
You're fading away.
Why is that?
Weren't you strong enough?
Or have you lost your sanity?
Pain induced self-destruction.
What's really your excuse?
Such a bad first impression;
Yet we're now at an impasse.
Am I the cause of this?
Or are you just now waking up from a dream?
Time has passed here,
But there's no telling how much.
What's a memory to you anyway?
Everything's a blur;
Nothing is sane.
Your heart has become empty.
You're now alone;
Yet all you have is me.
Self-hatred is at it's worst.
With a shallow breath
And an illness too complicated to diagnose.
A repeating emotion;
Defining the word we know as insanity.
Who are we really...?
Scheme | aBcdeffghijbkblmnopgaqjrjstuBjj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 0010010 01101110 11110101 1010100 10101 001010111 11001 111 101101 11111100 1011010 110101 1011010 1111101 110111 11111101101 1111 1111011 101001110 1001 1011 1110110 1101 111111 1101111 10101 01101100101 0010010 010011110100 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 661 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 150 |
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Written on April 27, 2021
Submitted by Arx7Echo on February 04, 2022
Modified on March 15, 2023
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