Analysis of Am, I against Me
AMG 1980 (Lagos)
I deeply taught him in me but,
He simply thought he is me
So I drag to own my will
Then, he grapple to take the wheel
This tussle, though cruel
Is actually a friendly chaos
I hath lost it all, readily
Before him, already
How can him that I am
A body that I was
In a world which I dearly built
In which now we deathly brawl
Carved in anger
Writs in fury, froze in anguish
Nothing but fiercefully
Buried in fued
How my dreams, he denied
My wish, he debunked
My plans, tarnished back in violence
Plainly muddled his filthy hands on them
For I prayed, for he cursed
Great hope turns tsunami
Grand hankering is tuning tornadoes
Is it white, nor it is red
This is were I will say stop
Accord me the sculls, tout de suite!
For who is him that is leading my part
In each directions when chosen
I was not a party to this
This destiny is not of mine
But I shall never bequeathed,
Even if I won and steer in disgust
And to the vague phase we all held aback
Willing to crash or to crush
Then, this my humble face shall rise again
To befriend the sunshine in tearful smile
Even though he told it to me
I still felt the alacrity is mine
As it flew through my meandering mind
My query - my golden quarry,
A freshly hail
In not so holy grail
A duelling duet
Drowned in dirty dew
Thus, I asked him in my melancholy
Am I me or are my you
Are you him,
Is him, I?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011011 1101111 1111111 11101101 110110 110001010 11111100 011010 111111 010111 00111101 0111101 1010 10101010 1011 1001 111101 11101 111010100 1010110111 111111 111010 1100110010 1111111 1101111 01101111 1111111011 01010110 11101011 11001111 1111001 1011101001 0101111101 1011111 1111011101 101010101 10111111 1110010011 1111101001 11011010 0101 011101 0101 10101 111101100 1111111 111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,360 |
Words | 296 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
The poem is about a troubled man who is deeply disturbed by his actions. Sometimes he ends up going against his initial plans and believes he is not the problem but he can't deny he will suffer the consequences of his deeds.
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Written on March 13, 2022
Submitted by gabrabimbola on March 14, 2022
Modified by gabrabimbola on March 15, 2022
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