Analysis of Intrinsic
She coils up inside of me
At the moment I need her most
Myself
Not afraid, exactly
But experienced
My inner child comes forward
And I assert myself
A puzzle
A program
A damning particle falls
On a preprogrammed stage
Where the only stain of
Incongruence is me
I struggle for balance
For poise
A proper self presentation
Is a struggle as a damning
Individualism (my own)
And counter culture
Is skittering through the pages
That are self expressive of the art of me
And firing them into the void
Of a collective treason
I am not against you
I tell myself as tightly coiled
She lies inside of me
In a desperate self preservation
That cannot or will not afford
The fires that are governed by mockery
By greed
By fear, festering agendas, and envy
I don’t have the time left
To care what they think
To be who they are
To fit in the little carefully assembled molds
I wasn’t born that way
Haven’t lived that way
And can’t understand that way
I am an individual
Valued as highly as any
Most certainly.
Scheme | AXBAX XBCXX XXAXX DXXXXA XDXXAD XAXAXXXX EEECAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 10101101 1 101010 10100 1101110 01011 010 01 0101001 1011 101011 111 110110 11 0101010 10101010 0010011 01010 111010 11101010111 01010101 1001010 111011 1111101 110111 00101010 11011101 01011101100 11 11100010010 111011 11111 11111 1100101000101 11111 1111 010111 1110100 10110110 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
This is a poem about what it means to be an individual in todays world after surviving Assualt and or mysogynistic domestic assault.
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