Analysis of Melancholy Mood
Among the fretful moorings of my mind
I search for clarity within discord,
as cadent tears assuage my sombre fears,
that propagate in melancholia.
Will this mood lighten and erase these thoughts,
infus’d into my mind from lassitude?
Can my mind create more omniscience,
to extirpate this melancholia?
Sapient and sagacious facets flood
like torrents of rapacious, greedy seas,
enlightening my perspicacity
and turning tides of melancholia.
In this autumnal twilight, born of years,
I’ve searched capacious chasms for answers,
thought buried in annals and canals of time,
to find the seeds of melancholia.
Is this melancholia a spoilsport
in today’s fun-loving social nuance?
No! I say – as artist ‘da Vinci’ say,
‘It’s a prerequisite for artistry!’
Scheme | AXBC XABC XXAC BXXC AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0101010111 1111000110 11101111 11001 1111000111 1011111 1110111 11011 101101 1101010101 010011 010111 010101111 110101110 11001000111 110111 11101 0011101010 1111101101 1001001100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 770 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
This poems seeks to find answers for why we feel the heavy weight of depression.
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