Analysis of Wish I was dead
Melissa L Maxwell 1988 (Camden New Jersey)
I dream about being away
I dream of another life
I dream of being someone else
Not just someone, somebody
I never really thought about what I wanted out of this life but
I wish I was dead.
I feel like an imposter
Am I real?
I don’t think so.
There is little in this world that is real
Everything around me only exists because that’s how my brain perceives it
Now I’m at the edge
I’m looking out
Looking for a third option
There isn’t one I can perceive
I wish I was dead
| Scheme | x x x x x A x b x b x x x x x A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011001 1110101 1111011 11110 11010101111011111 11111 11111 111 1111 1110011111 100111001011111011 11101 1101 1010110 1111101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 515 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 16 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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A poem about death
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