Analysis of Claustrophobia
I'm caught in cage, there's no escape.
Its walls are pressing me with force.
Feel like they melt to match my body shape
And fetter the convulsions, turn me in corpse.
Who put me into irons? They inflict the pain
Piercing skin pores while I attempt to move.
Meaningless twitches seem to be in vain.
Is it hallucinations? I cannot find a proof.
Musings engender such a wishful scene.
Will it get someday vivid, real?
This cage crumbles away, my hopes win.
So hard to be pulled back in claws of steel.
Cold metal blazes with uncanny rage,
Denying my natural desire to be free.
Spirit inside is screaming, but the cage
Overwhelms this shout so it will stay in me.
I ask myself if I am not completely blind.
The walls are getting closer, shrink,
Surround my silhouette, make limbs insanely wind.
That triumph of a bounteous hell I have to drink.
Look of a human, zeal of a predatory beast.
Hatred and frenzy fill my bloodshot eyes.
They're seeking for survival as one wrist
Twines round latticed barrier, forming the ties.
My heart is withering, divining danger.
Its beating gets more frequent with each sigh.
I wish to fearlessly face the violent stranger
Provoked the oppressive circumstances I defy.
The liar. A mirror's our usual rendezvous.
It can reveal him, although he's used to be backstage.
With lots of tangled thoughts my mind's imbued.
It utterly has captured me. It is my cage.
Scheme | AXAX BXBX XCXC DEDE FGFG XHXH IJIJ XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 11110111 1111111101 01000101101 111011010101 1011110111 1001011101 110010110101 1001010101 1111101 111001111 1111110111 1101010101 0101100010111 1001110101 0111111101 11111110101 01110101 011011111 11010111111 110101101001 100101111 1101010111 1111001001 11110001010 1101110111 11111010010 010010100101 0100101010010 110111111111 1111011101 110011011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,355 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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