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
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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Written on October 14, 2023

Submitted by vandallthe_v on October 31, 2023

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Gachungi Ndegwa Phillip

A Kenyan poet and student at Kabete National Polytechnic. Grew up in the rural lands of Nyeri and currently living in Nairobi city. I have always found poetry as an enjoyable and passionate form of expressing my deepest thoughts. Other passions include Music Production and playing Basketball. more…

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