Analysis of Barbed Words
That is the hardest thingBeing seenConsideredKnown I want to be known
Let my name be known
Will they consider me?
Here I amStagnant and repugnantAffection is meaninglessWords are hollow
Allow me to mimic this affectionHollowPointlessBluntedMeaningless I desire to be desired
I want to be ALIVE
Breathing Living Feelingevery scorned word and phraseUnsaid and unspokenineffectual wordstorture me
Don’t placate me
your truth
want you to tip toeBreak melet me cryfeelsomething Anything
| Scheme | AABCDEBBFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110101111111 11111 110101 1110111110 01111011101011010 111101 1010111010111 1101 11 1111111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 487 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
About this poem
This is about spiraling anxiety.
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Written on December 08, 2020
Submitted by bennettm.22202 on January 18, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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