Analysis of No Kindness Left to Find

Chase Walker 1986 (Virginia Beach)



Walking by myself, trying to clear my mind
When life has proven hell, there’s no kindness left to find
Struggling to get by, it’s harder every day
Still, I wonder why, I search for a better way
Searching in wrong places, the only way I know
All these unfamiliar faces, only goes to show
Things I’ve done redundant, probably for best
Lack of common-sense abundant, survival’s daily test
A testing of my patience, patiently I wait
Waiting for impatience, to come and save the day
Shall I stand right up, whatever shall I do
Running on sheer luck, somewhere away with you
Still, I sit and wonder, how’d it come to this
When life gets taken under, how do I escape the abyss  
In an abyss I’ve been trapped, an unrelenting feeling
When no one has my back, the thought alone unreeling
Losing all I had, to include my mind
Can’t be all that bad, with no kindness left to find
Kindness has no meaning, in a world that’s lackluster
I’m left alone careening, no more strength I can muster
Weakened from the madness, always that’s around
Eternally in sadness, when it’s darkness that’s abound
A walk that’s never-ending, dismay at every bend
A failed attempt at mending, when will my walking end


Scheme AABBCCDDEBFFGGHHAAIIJJKK
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101111 1111011110111 1001111101001 111011110101 100110010111 110101010111 11101010011 111010101101 010111010011 101010110101 1111110111 1011110111 11101011111 111101011101001 0101111101010 11111101011 1011110111 111111110111 101110001110 11010101111110 1010101101 01000101110101 01110100111001 0101110111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,211
Words 215
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 929
Words per stanza (avg) 213

About this poem

I wrote this poem about the state of the world and my daily struggles in it.

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Written on November 20, 2022

Submitted by chasewalker on November 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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