Analysis of The Encumbrance
I image you,
As you guzzle that infusion,
I spectate why you're back to it all over again
What was so tenacious?
That made you contemplate it was all right for a second time?
One more won't wound,
Not like the past.
Did you consider you could regulate it at this stage?
That your motivation be resilient enough?
Were the verses you dribble at us not upsetting enough?
Were the anxieties, the Ativan bouts you were placed on, the cantankerousness, the horror, not sufficient for you?
I image you in a puddle of your personal bile,
Your associates and kinfolk deplorable
And saying no one knew how immoral you were.
Deplorable, if we had recognized, we could have assisted him.
But I identified.
I recognized about the feelings,
The quiet aspirations inside your skull.
I discerned, and I did zilch.
I want to scream out,
"Nevertheless this is just how he desired to go, laughing in a puddle of his personal bile.
As an alternative, I say the merely sympathetic confrontations I have.
Your confrontations, the only object you could contemplate about in those last moments.
Whatever to make the agony go away forever.
Whatever to discontinue the sobbing.
I recognize the reality.
I lug it with me, by yourself
I'll not ever convey to a single person.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 11101010 111111111001 111010 11110111110101 1111 1101 1101011101111 11010101001 001011011101001 000100011101101010101011 11010010111001 10100010100 010111101010 0100111101110101 11010 11001010 0100100111 1010111 11111 0011111101011100010111001 1101001101001001011 10100101011100101110 10110100101010 1010010010 110010 11111101 111001101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,221 |
Words | 218 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 4, 10, 3 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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