Analysis of I imagine too much
I imagine too much
My mind creates previsions of everything
It “knows” I’m going to make the team,
It “knows” he’s going to talk to me,
It “knows” I’ll get into that school,
It “knows” I’ll make it through;
My mind vivifies like a writer,
It shows me where when and how,
It likes to have me enraptured,
It narrates the picture aloud,
“You’ll be sitting on that chair,
So and so will be there,
You’ll open the results and shout,
‘I never had a doubt!’”
My mind gives me excessive hope,
akin to that of Jay Gatsby;
It assures me that the best is coming
And anything less is impossible,
It tells me to trust it
because its claims are indisputable;
But my mind is unreliable,
It loves to fool me,
It lifts me exceedingly high up,
Only to push me down deep;
It is cunning and deceptive,
It makes me hate the world,
Makes me blame fate for having me cheated,
When in truth it is the one who stirs
the games that leave me defeated;
My mind holds my fatal flaw,
Its red hands are raised high,
But I don’t have the courage or the will
to reach out and begin to tie;
And now I’ve pushed past the branches and leaves
And dug past the concealing soil,
I’ve revealed the roots of the tortured tree,
Found the source of its turmoil;
My finger, searching to point,
Must turn towards me if it is honest
Because it is my own doing, my own fault
That I imagine and imagine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 11011110 111101101 111101111 11110111 111111 1111010 1111101 11111010 10101001 1110111 101111 11000101 110101 11110101 01111110 1011101110 010110100 111111 011110100 11110100 11111 111010011 1011111 11100010 111101 1111110110 101110111 01111010 1111101 111111 1111010101 11100111 0111101001 01100101 1010110101 101111 1101011 1101111110 01111110111 110100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,412 |
Words | 302 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
This is a personal poem about my tendency to develop high hopes and leave myself unprepared for disappointment. I wrote about becoming so attached to idyllic previsions that it becomes unfathomable to face a reality that doesn't align with them. I think this poem describes a somewhat universal problem. By sharing about my experience with it, I could speak to many others with similar struggles.
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Written on January 02, 2023
Submitted by htikehayzin41 on February 20, 2023
Modified on March 11, 2023
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