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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