Analysis of Unwanted



Life. Or something like it.
This infuriating knowledge
that I
don't want to be here;
that it would be so much easier
on everyone
if I wasn't
Having no one to really talk to
no one to calm my fears...
to help me
if I fall
Knife pressed to yielding flesh
so easy...
to sever a life-
your own life.
Knowing
that if all things
happened the way they should have
that you would already be
dead.
                             September 23, 2010


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLJMMNOPJQE
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 1010010 11 11111 111111100 110 1110 101111011 111111 111 111 111101 110 11001 111 10 1111 1001111 1110101 1 010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 416
Words 80
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 80
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Submitted on June 22, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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