Analysis of I Messed Up



Left out in the frozen frost,
Standing lonely, listful, and lost,
I feel I’m in way over my head,
Different from what I’ve said.
In my mind, I’m dying,
I’m lying and feel like crying,
This isn’t who I am,
I’m not used to being the lamb.

To walk to the sun,
To walk until I run,
Would be my own death,
Would expel my last breath.
Now I’m part of the ice,
I’m cut away, slice by slice
From the world of my own choosing,
There’s to be no more perusing.

Looking at the cold,
My soul is sold,
Its crystalline beauty took me in
And held me with arms of sin,
Holding me, caring for me,
Loving me: they adore me,
An outcast who found a place
A line finally leaving a trace.

For ice to meet light,
To bring about the end of this night,
I have to change,
We’ll all have to rearrange.
The chill is breaking me,
And it’s not too late to see,
That it’s all going to be okay
And I can still stay.


Scheme AABBCCDD EEFFGGCC HHIIJJKK LLMMJJNN
Poetic Form
Metre 1100101 1010101 111011011 1001111 011110 11001110 11111 11111001 11101 110111 11111 101111 111101 1101111 10111110 11111010 10101 1111 11010110 0111111 1011011 1011011 111101 011001001 11111 110101111 1111 111101 011101 0111111 11110111 01111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 875
Words 181
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Kassandra M. Konecny

Kassandra Konecny is a lover of listening to music, hiking in the mountains, and observing the way people act. She began writing vigorously when she was fourteen and will hopefully never stop. She has had her fair share of trials lately, and tries to encompass nearly every subject there is to study into her writing. Kassandra plans to study creative writing and psychology. She's 17 and currently lives in Utah with her family. Contact her at kassandrakonecny@hotmail.com more…

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