Analysis of Diagonal



I'm doing good, I guess.
My life is going great! - I think?
Everything is going my way and I am, happy?
I like the cards that I have been dealt, kind of?
It's definitely not bad. It's good?
It's not in between its just not, that.
Everything is what I could have asked for when I asked, and yet, I'm happy-ish.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, if I'm doing something wrong, is it me?
Is it you?
Is it school?
Is it just me?
Is it friends?
Is it family?
Is it stress?
Is it me?
Am I just? - not broken but, crooked.
Like I was installed not with a crack but, backwards.
Like I have a missing piece.
Or a extra one.
I don't think I know what pieces I have.
Or should have?
Am I upside down?
Inside out?
Flipped?
Or just in between?
It's like everyone else has a instruction manual, on how to build themselves, or they don't, but at least they can pretend.
I've tried so long to pretend.
To act like I have the neat pieces of paper that have the way your parts fit together, and to have the sheet of the pre-made stickers that make all the imperfections go away, for a time.
But I'm slipping…
Like I'm not empty…  but hollow.
Is empty the same as hollow?
Like not devoid of emotion, just constantly bored.
Like I have grown not up but down. Not even down but just diagonally.
Like I can feel the waves and feel the way I am supposed to be swiming, but I just… don't swim.
I don't sink, I just… float.
While all the others are swimming away.
It doesn't feel wrong, just not right?
At this point I'm not sure I want right… not anymore.
If right is not what I can have then…
I guess I'll have to settle for not wrong.


Scheme ABCDEFGCHICJCACKLMNOOPQRSTTUVWWXCYZ1 2 3 4 5
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (28%)
Metre 110111 11110111 101101101110 11011111111 110001111 110011111 101111111111011101 111111011110101111 111 111 1111 111 11100 111 111 111110110 111011101110 1110101 10101 1111111011 111 11111 011 1 11001 11101100101001111011111111101 1111101 1111101101101101111010011011011101110010101101 1110 11110110 11001110 1101101011001 1111111111011101000 1111010101110111111111 111111 1101011001 11011111 111111111101 111111111 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,623
Words 322
Sentences 42
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 40
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,200
Words per stanza (avg) 323
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Submitted by Pyrofold on January 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Emilia Hulson

Emilia Hulson is a 15 year old Minnesotan poet, who often explores the deeper and darker sides of her life, focusing on struggles that affect her. more…

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