Analysis of Rationality.



A painful realization followed by painful persistence.
There is no purpose in this place.
There is no place for purpose!
I have strayed far from reaching reason. Why?
Every sound and sight and feeling and odor and taste
Is so beautifully prolonged,
Driving me mad, making me sad.
Life is too short to not have lived this long.
Spending each minute in moments I know are wrong.
And I am left complacently imperfect,
Comfortably flawed;
Respecting my sadness, while bowing to madness.
I am ruled by Tyrant Passion,
Conquered by Sir Obsession,
And subject to Her Majesty, Queen Love.
And Society! It doesn't know, it won't know!
It can't know what this is like and how it feels
To never appeal and loosely congeal
Around an idea, around a word, such as
Insanity.


Scheme ABCDEFGHHIJCKKLMNOPQ
Poetic Form
Metre 010101010110010 11110011 1111110 1111110101 10010101001001 1110001 10111011 1111111111 101100101111 01110100010 10001 010110110110 11111010 1011010 0011010011 001001101111 11111110111 1100101001 011010010111 0100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 740
Words 133
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 600
Words per stanza (avg) 133
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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