Analysis of Ophelia (renewal)
I crave renewal
To be reborn in a body not built for agony
I want to know
I can be remade
My days are filled with pain
Two out of how many more diagnoses needed
If this is my life, how can I live it?
I am never comfortable
I have lost the joys of
Cozy cold comforting mornings
Wrapped in softness and needing to go nowhere
If every time you did what brought you joy
Writing drawing painting gaming
Slicing burning shot through your hands
You become trained like the tinkling of a bell
Not quite to salivate and expect dinner
If your body felt like bricks rubbing against each other
Creating piles of clay dust embodying your energy
Why even get out of bed
(Except expecting it to be another place of suffering)
If your mind and eyes could not quite rest on words before you
Knowing you were so much more
What reasons could there be to keep reading
When Ophelia becomes enviable
Beautiful corpse in the water
Preserved in prettiness
Natural forevermore
Flowers adorning her as a queen would have gold
I would lose myself to the water
Break my bones over river stones
Let the salt of the ocean depths take my breaths
The sea, my siren herself, sings sweetly
Scheme | ABXX XXXAXCD XEXXF FBXE XXE AFCDX FXX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 11110010111100 1111 11101 111111 111110101010 1111111111 11101000 111011 10110010 1010010111 11001111111 10101010 10101111 101110100101 1111000110 11101111001110 010111101001100 1101111 0101011101011100 11101111111011 1010111 1101111110 1010011000 10010010 0101 1001 100100101111 11111010 11110101 10110101111 0111001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,188 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 5, 4, 3, 5, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
I have chronic pain, and have been struggling to find purpose and joy lately. I just had to let the feelings out, so that I may move on.
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