Analysis of Discouraged



I can never be a writer,
As words are not my skill;
I scribble and I scrawl,
But constantly hit a brick wall.

With no cheering on my team,
I may as well pack in my dream.
No one to cheer or give advice,
I may as well be counting rice.

With no encouragement,
And nothing to inspire;
I may as well crumple my pages,
And toss them in the fire.

For years and years I’ve really tried,
But to no avail;
It seems everything I write,
Is bound to fail.


Scheme AXBB CCDD XXXA XEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 11101010 111111 110011 11001011 1110111 11111011 11111101 11111101 110100 010101 111110110 0110010 11011101 11101 111011 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 449
Words 109
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

The reasons I stopped writing for many years.

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Written on November 01, 2010

Submitted by belindadobie on January 11, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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