Analysis of I Have Fallen
Jonathan Conway 2009 (Greenville, OH)
I Have Fallen
By: Jonathan Conway
Who am I to conform
On a stage of lies I perform
To societal expectations we are born
Not yet to comfort for we are forlorn
The truest of all pains
Loneliness is the worst of all chains
For who am I to talk to
When all they do is gawk and flock to
For we are no truer than our deepest faults
We are blocked off by our tallest walls
For we are too far to fall
To small to stand
For none could meet the demands
Why must I not be free
When freedom is death to a degree
The only escape in which I leave
Let me live, let me die, I plead
Mortal wounds may wound me
Yet my sins I cannot attune to thee
Constant agony and never-ending suffer
My eyes close as my life does flutter
Please, let me be, for I have fallen
| Scheme | AX BBCCDDEEXXXXXFFXXFFGGA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 11001 111101 10111101 10100010111 1111011101 010111 100101111 1111111 111111011 111110110101 1111110101 1111111 1111 1111001 111111 110111001 010010111 11111111 101111 1111100111 101000101010 111111110 111111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 747 |
| Words | 161 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 22 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 291 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
About this poem
This is a poem I wrote about how I feel that it is impossible for me to escape the overbearing clutches of expectation.
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