Analysis of The War Outside and The War Within
"Everything is fine, everything's OK"
That's what I say throughout every day
I told my sister, her cat, to no one too,
If I say it enough, then it must be true.
But me, I'm on pause
Feeling all my flaws
Trying to find the cause
Meditating on what was
But with this war, gee wow
Gotta focus on the now
For when I die I have one goal
And that's to feel complete and whole
I thought I had time- like a lot,
But death may be sooner than i thought
I don't want to die feeling distraught
So I accept my past,
For I can't heal it that fast.
That's simply what I had to do,
I chose to forget my future too
I know any day
A rocket may come my way,
Or terrorists will leave me on display,
Or turn my home into an ashtray
And if I die I want to embrace it,
Not feel like my potential was wasted,
To reach a good place, not just to chase it
Don't have time for past,
And the future might not be,
So I'm stuck in the present- I'm stuck here with me.
With the war outside, and the war within
I chose the war I can battle, the war I can win
I have to win- you all know why
Because if I don't, and I just die
What was the point?
I can't even cry.
I feel numb, my mind's in a cloud
But that just won't do, no, that's not allowed.
I will be present and I will be proud.
Scheme | AA BB CCDD EE FF XGG HHBB AAAA IXI HJJ KKLLXL MMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111011 1111011001 11110011111 11110111111 11111 10111 101101 100111 111111 1010101 11111111 01110101 11111101 111110111 111111001 110111 1111111 11011111 111011101 11101 0101111 1100111101 11110111 0111111011 1111010110 1101111111 11111 0010111 111001011111 1011100101 1101111001111 11111111 011110111 1101 11101 11111001 1111111101 1111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,265 |
Words | 294 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
My personal experience living in a war portrayed in a humorous way. Dark humor and poetry is what is currently helping me stay sane in a violent world.
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