Analysis of My Madness

Jay Ford 1984 (Youngstown, Ohio)



I can never figure out why I feel so down.
Bright smile on the outside, but inside I frown.
I've got it a lot better than most.
But I feel like my shoulders carry the weight of the east coast.
Besides death, life's only guarantee is change.
I know this cause who I was and who I am now aint the same.
Incapable of ever feeling the emotion of love again.
My heart only bleeds out thru the ink in my pen.
If silence is golden, then why is it worthless?
To a man with something to say, it has no purpose.
I stand alone as I stare into the eyes of the serpent.
Destroying the good with the evil is inadvertent
Divide my mind into 4parts.
It changes like the seasons. Where one ends, another starts.
A continuous cycle that bends and then breaks
Till my mind shatters on the ground.
Each memory a shard.


Scheme AABBCDEEFFGGHHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 111010111111 11101110111 111011011 111111010011011 0111100111 111111101111101 01001101000101101 111011101011 110110111110 1011101111110 110111101011010 0100110101010 0111011 11010101110101 001001011011 11110101 110001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 799
Words 170
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 620
Words per stanza (avg) 156

About this poem

Going through a breakup when I wrote this.

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Written on April 22, 2014

Submitted by jayford61984 on January 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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