Analysis of Wish and Necessity
There is no wish to move on,
No necessity to know, feel, breathe:
The life energy broken, accurst, gone,
With Time no ties to inter wreathe.
There is no more that verve and power
Left for flowing in vision of eyes,
No brilliance attach'd to any hour
Of life, or blues and blacks of skies.
No necessity of dignity of present, past;
No wish for senses mad in sensations,
Or beating thrill for ages last
Or that unsaid, only felt relations -
No wish, no necessity by obligations bound,
Only death and woe in me are found.
| Scheme | XAXABCBCDEDE FF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 101001111 011001011 11111011 111111010 111001011 1100111010 11110111 1010011001101 1111010010 11011101 1101101010 111010010101 101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 519 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
About this poem
It is a poem of my utter desparation and grief. It celebrates my sadness and finds a natural course of exhausting my sorrow. I realised that writing poetry has a definite therapeutic effect.
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Written on March 07, 2022
Submitted by js2541 on August 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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