Analysis of Cyanide Obsession
Do you know what it's like
To live with a self-made obsession?
One drop of this cyanide,
And I've spiraled into a depression.
I drank too much.
Now I've blacked out.
Thinking I could end my life.
But as I woke
From this dead sleep,
It's like time never ceased in its actions.
I have become a masochist
In my own right.
I drank, drank so much,
This obsession has taken control.
It is but second nature.
I cannot get enough.
Do you know what it's like
To live this story called my life?
This cyanide crawling beneath my skin.
It's suffocating.
Stealing air from within my lungs.
But it's enticing all the same.
If only you knew.
If only I could put this into better words.
How this obsession with cyanide,
Came to be a part of me....
Scheme | Abcb dxexxx xx dxxx Aexxxx xxcx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111011010 111110 0110010010 1111 1111 1011111 1111 1111 1111010110 11010100 0111 11111 101011001 1111010 110101 111111 11110111 110100111 1100 10110111 11010101 11011 110111101101 11010110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 736 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 2, 4, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on December 07, 2021
Submitted by Arx7Echo on February 02, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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