Analysis of Every Day
You act surprised
When I tell you about my depression,
But really,
Why should you be so shocked?
Don’t you know that
This is my life every day?
Depression follows me around
Wherever I go
Like a dog on a leash.
It’s like my shadow,
The blocker of the sun,
The terror of the night,
The knife held in my hand.
My life every day
Is filled with depression
And sorrow
And death and darkness,
So why would you be surprised?
You shouldn’t be
Because you should care enough to
Notice my depressed life.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHBJKFBHLACMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1111011010 110 111111 1111 11111001 01010101 01011 101101 1111 010101 010101 011011 111001 111010 010 01010 1111101 111 01111011 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 385 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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