Analysis of Alone

Tanaka 1999 (Pretoria)



I feel alone in my troubles

It’s an out of body experience

I feel like I’m under the rubble

So much weight for me to handle

I feel like a burden

Nobody to confide in or talk to

Nobody to trust with my problems

Who is it in this world that I can turn to

I feel like I’m not enough

Nothing I do counts for anything

It feels like when things get tough

I’m sitting in a pool of my tears deep within

Will the constant pain ever end

Even the painkillers couldn’t take it away

In the saddest moments of my life I pretend

By carrying this smile on my face

So that they would not see

The hurt I carry right inside of me


Scheme X X A A X B X B C X C X D X D X E E
Poetic Form
Metre 11010110 1111100100 111110010 11111110 111010 11010111 1111110 11101111111 1111101 10111110 1111111 110001111101 10101101 1001011101 001010111101 110011111 111111 0111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 653
Words 158
Sentences 1
Stanzas 18
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 7

About this poem

It’s about a girl describing her experience of depression in solitude.

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Written on August 03, 2022

Submitted by faithymuz on August 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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