Analysis of Mental Sediment



Melancholic smile, pensive language, pathetic posture,
Egregious thoughts, nihilistic; self-inflicted rapture,
Nonchalantly spewing poison towards fragile, weak minds,
Treacherous self-deception, psyche strangled in tight binds,
Antithesis the man; opposite, existentialism,
Laden with troubles, burdened; tunnel-visioned pragmatism.

Serenity, a rarity in this deep, bleak cavern,
Entrapped; imprisoned, a shoddy, flickering lantern,
Disgusted by self confinement, thoughts harden; sediment,
In his life, calloused by resentment, not one compliment,
Myopic was his attitude; lacking forward-thinking,
Entropy, a rapid spiral towards disorder; drinking,
No longer shall his aching pain prevail, drowned himself numb,
Towards blacking out he strives, before so, a depressed hum.


Scheme AABBCC DDXXEECC
Poetic Form Acrostic
Metre 0101101001010 01011101010 10101010011011 10010101010011 0100011001 1011010101100 01000100011110 0101001010010 01011010110100 01110101011100 0101110101010 100010100101010 11011101011011 0111110110011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 778
Words 113
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 8
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 318
Words per stanza (avg) 50

About this poem

This poem is an acrostic fourteener (fourteen lines with 14 syllables).

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Written on August 27, 2023

Submitted by frevffndkr on August 27, 2023

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