Analysis of Anxiety

Dawn Angel 1986 (Akron)



yep, I'm bat shit fucking crazy,
it's getting harder,
to hold onto me,
the part of me,
 that is sane,
the part of me,
 no longer in pain,
get out of my brain,

anxiety sweeps in,
like a rush of adrenaline,
I try to hold it back,
but see, that's where I lack,
the hold on my mind,
to tell myself that I'm fine,
just take a breath,
and don't hold regret,

but the problem is there,
for me, I fucking swear,
I know you can't see it,
and I can't explain this shit,
but it makes me want to quit,
its so hard to commit,
to anything really,
so I have to keep busy,

I know I'm fucking crazy,
and everything becomes hazy,
lost, in a blurred state,
so its hard to relate,
anxiety in overdrive,
barely able to survive,
I tell myself to calm down,
and that it's time fix my crown,

so with each breathe I take,
I slowly make a break,
through the suffering,
and start recovering,
the part of me,
that started slipping away,
the part of me,
that I gave away,


Scheme axaAbAbb xxccxxxx ddeeeeaa aaffgghh iijjAkAk
Poetic Form Tetractys  (28%)
Etheree  (28%)
Metre 11111010 11010 11101 0111 111 0111 11001 11111 010010 10110100 111111 111111 01111 111111 1101 01101 101011 111101 111111 0110111 1111111 111101 11010 1111110 1111010 0100110 10011 111101 0100010 1010101 111111 0111111 111111 110101 10100 010100 0111 1101001 0111 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 945
Words 230
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 37

About this poem

Too often my anxiety kicks in at the wrong place wrong time. I wrote this poem to help me get through it. And to possibly help other people understand it more.

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Written on December 18, 2023

Submitted by Dawn.Angel on December 28, 2023

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