Analysis of Depression
The windows of her house
are tinted black.
She sits, in her bedroom
trying to separate
facts from fiction.
Simple choices
with complex solutions.
The whispers keep
her awake at night.
They have called with jagged edges
raining down in spiral ashes.
Curious little devils;
dancing with gnarled sticks
they beat their devil words,
into her overflowing ears.
Her doctors bottled rainbows
and fed them to her by the fistful,
trying to banish her edged temptations.
The devils still danced
claiming her soul.
She tries to talk to God,
but she can't form the words
She lays out her pills,
row on row.
Too many, too few
she is not sure.
The bridge crumbles,
She feels herself tumbling
Down, Down...freefalling.
Tortured, insane what does it matter,
There is not one word
to perfectly describe
Depression.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIFFJKLMNOGPQRLSTUVJWBXYZE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 1101 11001 10110 1110 1010 110010 0101 00111 1111110 10101010 1001010 10111 111101 0101001 010101 011101010 1011001010 01011 1001 111111 111101 11101 111 11011 1111 0110 1101100 11 100111110 11111 110001 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 33 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 636 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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