Analysis of PTSD
Four years elapsed,
Since the world collapsed,
And I still can’t delete it,
Delete it from my head.
The concrete impaction,
One solitary action,
From able to chained,
Chained to his deathbed.
And I’m disturbed by the memories,
Sad for the suffering–
For his suffering,
For their suffering,
For the collective rippling of suffering…
Tragedy inspires, I’m told,
But its message is lost upon me,
Blurred in darkness,
A stop-motion picture,
Haunting me, frame by frame.
Homing in on this harrowing loss,
I find my focus will never sharpen,
Just like he will never come back,
And so, I’m left fixating on that which
I can neither fully remember nor fail to forget.
Scheme | AAXB CCXB XD DDD XXXXX XCXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 10101 0111011 011111 0011 110010 11011 1111 010110100 110100 1111100 1111100 10010110011100 1000111 111011011 1010 011010 101111 100111001 1111011010 11111011 01111111 11101001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2, 3, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This poem is a reflection on my experience grieving my late-boyfriend's death due to suicide, and the trauma associated.
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