Analysis of 4%
Diverted eyes
Thinking about trying to read minds
when making up my story
gets stale but ongoing
Diverging lies
Knowing the headlines aren't the frontlines
is false solace anyway
illusion = delusion
Diminished cries
Misery is the price of admission
accepting the score
is seldom done internally
Deleted whys
Sanity is not so easily preserved
forgetting some memories
doesn't vanquish the pain
Defeated sighs
Comforting nonetheless is,
slowly but surely, –suffocating each–
our guilt will not be the same
| Scheme | AXBX AAXC ACXB AXXX AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (25%) |
| Metre | 0101 100110111 1101110 11110 0101 10011001 111010 010010 0101 1001011010 01001 11010100 0101 10011110001 0101100 101001 0101 100011 101101001 10111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 511 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
I wrote this (circa 2012) contemplating how l am different from others. It's true that everyone is different in different ways, but there is a minority of true uniqueness among the mainstream masses of humanity.
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