Analysis of Emotions on Paper



I used to be poetically gifted

Now I just seen lyrically stupid

Used to wow with my spectacular vernacular

Lately my poems haven't had

Rhythm, feet, rhyme, or iambic pentameter

Verses now just outline my life that is so traversed in pain

I don't have a goal or nothing within my aim

Syntax less emotions released with one stroke of a pen

From this madness I can see no end

The harder I try the faster and further I fall

They say I play to much but when is

The last time you saw me with a ball

Everything to me is not a game

But my past is the blame

Everything to me is not a joke

The problem is I grew up when I was four

I laugh and play to hide my

Pain which is my heart's core!


Scheme A A B X B X C X X D X D C C X E X E
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010010 111110010 1111101000100 10110101 1011111 10111111111001 111011100111 1101001111101 111011111 0101101001011 111111111 011111101 10111101 111101 10111101 01011111111 1101111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 662
Words 141
Sentences 1
Stanzas 18
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on November 11, 2010

Modified on April 12, 2023

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