Analysis of Inside Out
All we paint with mental strokes becomes a self-portrait.
The grand murals on life's walls in us originate.
We are authors of our dreams when asleep and awake.
No one can live in our heads without our choice intake.
Through many observations we strengthen every trait.
The valued things reinforce and then accentuate.
What in others we reject in self we don't abate.
Emotion charged behavior our defenses equate.
We are held by all we love just like by all we hate.
What attracts and what repels will with self correlate.
Flame or ice runs in our veins and moodiness connate.
Mirrored images appear from what we inculcate.
What we see is in the mind and not outside the gate.
Perception is projection: a parallel comate.
Scheme | AB CC BB BB BB AB BA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101010110 011011101010 11101101101001 11110101011011 1100101101001 010101010100 1010101011101 01010101001001 1111111111111 101010111110 11110101011 101000111110 1111001011101 01010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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