Analysis of A MAD MAN'S INSIGHT
I awake with a stub wound on my back,
It Heals,
healing,
healed,
Perhaps it's intention's black,
Perhaps it's lesson's dark.
The last of this noxious stack.
At night my naive notions lark,
From far the menacing acts of serenity's works.
"Be cool,
Be calm,
What you choose
you become.
Move the pieces you can"
The log in my eye and
The fog that exists in the wake,
A toast for goodbyes, lies and
All that makes us great
A clean slate's inception you reckon
For there's no gold for the most chaste.
Scheme | AXXXABA BXXXXXX CXCXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (45%) |
Metre | 1011011111 11 10 1 01111 01111 0111101 1111101 1101001111 11 11 111 101 101011 010110 01101001 011110 11111 011010110 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
I wrote it on account of a life confliction I faced recently. Writing the few sentences helped me put things in a broken down and simple perspective.
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