Analysis of Memoirs of a mental breakdown
I thought--no, I didn't think.
Do I ever?
"Quoth the Raven--Nevermore,"
and yet
words are curious
there are so many
I never thought I could breathe
if nothing happened, nothing would happen
if I breathed, everything would change
I dislike change
I prefer solid things
things with substance
the same books, over and over
the same movies, over and over
the same rules, over and over
these made sense
they didn't
they disappeared underneath my fingertips and flew
I tried to catch them but I breathed too deep and they were gone
do they live in my lungs?
are they in my blood?
I might like that
it wouldn't be too bad to breathe
and inhale words with every breath and thoughts
bouncing around in my flesh
I think--I would like to scream
to yell out all the words in my body
to spread them out, out, out.
but i don't
WHY
i can't
WHY
stop it hurts to think
NO
i need to breathe but if i do i will release
all of the words that are trapped inside of me
and they will be free
and i will be alone
Scheme | a b xx xc dx e e xx bbb x xx x xxx dxx xcx xFxFax xccx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1110 101010 01 11100 11110 1101111 1101010110 1111011 1011 101101 1110 01110010 011010010 01110010 111 110 1010111001 11111111110101 111011 11011 1111 11011111 00111100101 1001011 1111111 1111010110 111111 111 1 11 1 11111 1 111111111101 11011110111 01111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,013 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem about what it feels like to be out of control and not being able to do anything about it.
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Written on September 20, 2023
Submitted by gloriousinsanity on September 20, 2023
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