Analysis of Stay Away From Sharp Edges



It's going to be like this forever,
medicate me until I can’t feel,
that's what you wanted from me, right?
You want to make me normal,
but i'm not the person i was when I was born,
something went wrong in the mixing bowl;
too many inconsistencies in the recipe made me broken.
I’m not broken because of sadness,
I broke when you dropped me.
I shattered into too many pieces to put back together,
so many have tried to glue the shards into one,
but they’re fragile now, being torn from me again.
I’m not going to make it with the pieces left,
they keep falling off and breaking into more fragments,
I fell apart a long time ago,
So why try now when all the pieces are scattered in front of me,
it's just so much effort,
I can’t muster the strength to pick them up again,
the leftovers shimmer in the light when the sun rises,
It's beautiful when it shines, why not pick them up?
The edges cut me over and over,
They’re too sharp to gather.
Luckily I don’t mind the pain,
it’s almost comforting to have something to expect;
something to go back to every time.
If i keep gathering them eventually I’ll be put together again,
even if I fall apart after,
I don’t mind the pain.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIAGJKLMINJOPAAQRSJAQ
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111010 10101111 11110111 1111110 111010111111 101100101 1100100001001110 111001110 111111 1100111010111010 110111101011 111011011101 111011110101 1110101001110 110101101 1111110101100111 111110 111001111101 0101000110110 110011111111 0101110010 111110 10011101 111001110101 1011111001 11110010100011101001 101110110 11101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,192
Words 251
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 903
Words per stanza (avg) 224

About this poem

its cliche to say "i'm broken" but I wrote this in the depths of my own emotions, and if that's what came out, then that's what it is.

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Written on October 23, 2023

Submitted by CurryPoof on October 23, 2023

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