Analysis of Contentment's Decay
Here I am again
4am again
Trying to hold it back again
Wasting life again
Cuz the longer I'm here in this room
With pen and paper...
I mean keyboard and liquor
I can ease the pain that looms
Nothing burns quite like it
Those first beams of light
They cut my veil of night
Bloodshot eyes sting and itch
I Rise and shine
Brilliant like rust
Caked in the dust
Of time not so kind
Pressing ever forward
With a determined procrastination
Outlasting bursts of brilliant inspiration
Resilient contentment of a coward
Caught lightning in a coffin
Shut the lid tight
Too afraid to let out the light
Entombed my effulgent ambition
Back in the dark
The safe haven I crave
In contentment's squalid decay
Never to make my mark
Scheme | AAAA XBBX XCCX XDDX EFFE XCCF GXXG |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (29%) |
Metre | 11101 101 10111101 10101 101011011 11010 111010 1110111 101111 11111 111111 11101 1101 1011 1001 11111 101010 100100010 101110010 0100101010 1100010 1011 10111101 0111010 1001 011011 011001 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on September 03, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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