Analysis of The door
Kaleb Gibson 2003 (North Carolina)
Nothing affects me
Because I built walls
Because of what happened
When I was young
I built walls
So I could survive
And nothing would hurt me
No anguish
No depression
No anxiety
No fear
No grief
But I never realized that that numbed me to other things as well
Complete happiness
Utter joy
True love
So I tore them all down
All of my walls
And opened myself up to it all
And found something with someone
And I felt complete happiness
Utter joy
And the truest of love
But out they went
Left because it wasn’t worth it to stay
And with them left all those great things
That came when the walls came down
And all I was left with
Was the grief, anxiety, depression, and anguish
I help out for those great things, and for them as well
But neither ever came back
And so I I sat with all the negative emotions around me
Until I had enough
And rebuilt my walls
Where I didn’t get effected by any of it
Except loneliness
As I missed that happiness
But I didn’t know if I would survive without my walls
So I decided
I would just build a door
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (38%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10011 01111 011110 1111 111 11101 010111 110 1010 10100 11 11 1110101111110111 01100 101 11 111111 1111 01011111 011011 01101100 101 001011 1111 101111111 01111111 1110111 011111 1010100010010 111111101111 1101011 01111110100010011 011101 00111 111101011011 01100 1111100 1111111010111 1110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,046 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 821 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 203 |
About this poem
It is a poem about me and mostly this past year
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Written on May 22, 2003
Submitted by kaleb_g on May 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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