Analysis of Is it cruel to be kind?
it was a beautiful addiction
when it began
at the eastern wall, I lied
with my spider monkeys
going on 300 weeks so far
accumulating new pollution on my side
bleeding excess black
words I find unnamed
meanings untagged, marked in red
phrases hit me; I’m bruised & blue
some tamed, just come along
walking the green
I’m so color-full.
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misery awaits today like a good friend
rushing me into the mood
to filter my thoughts that
there is no such thing as the world
is enough, to have you is,
until I sleep....
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what a lie
I’ll meet the creeper
wherever I may roam
on the flip side of the world
to give up the ghost,
for I’m not permitted to want
just accepting what was given
then I’ll be fine again
when I go with the flow down below
because I prayed that I wanted you to want me
beside you on an angry throne
to secure rain when I die
to wash me away
to the gutters of your eternity...
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wishful thinking,
like my friend of misery
what a waste of me to be
misguided & sober
when all I just wanted is you
to break you
to have you as my weakness
& I’m failing,
what kind of mercy are you on?
Is it cruel for you to be kind?
Is it cruel to be kind?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100010 1101 1010111 111010 101111 01001010111 1011 11101 101101 1011111 111101 1001 11101 1 10001011011 1010101 110111 11111101 1011111 0111 1 101 1101 010111 1011101 11101 11101011 10101110 111101 111101101 011111101111 01111101 1011111 11101 1010110100 1 1010 1111100 1011111 01010 11111011 111 1111110 110 11110111 111011111 1110111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,221 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 48 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 881 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 234 |
About this poem
seeking my own mercy
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Written on February 24, 2023
Submitted by azdi404 on February 24, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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