Insanity defined as repeated actions, expecting different results
Put all my faith in a fairy tale
that I told myself in long, deep chapters
every night, then leading to incomplete
hearts, allows no happy ever afters
Put all my own faith, in a miracle
I fasted and quietly, prayed upon
to be brought then to the throne of heaven
to find out, the occupier was long gone
Put all my faith in the sisters of fate
say they spin reality like a thread
a struggling fly, on a spider's web
my free will missing, presumed dead
When it's obvious the answer is me
appear then, to define insanity
About this poem
it's a sonnet 3 stanzas and a couplet it's about loss
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Written on August 21, 2923
Submitted by jackpoetry32 on September 11, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB CC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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