Analysis of I Am



I am the madness in a shaky room with all right angles, with all straight lines.
I am the wrong-minded in the right place, straight-faced, doing the normal thing, acting the average part.
I am the lie in the honest delusion in a desperate need of truth,  of reality, of grounding, of directionality.
“I am me!” I scream in pain again to nobody at all, unconvinced it must be so, filthy debris clinging to my identity unsettles my certainty, discombobulates my sense of “me.”
I am the selfishness in the act of kindness I wish I never understood.
I am the loneliness in the hand extended in friendliness, in companionship, patting backs and shoulders, consummating relationships, consuming patience, presuming facelessness, meaningless expressions stretched aching in pain enduring fakeness afraid to make a statement.
I am the relief in the hated, exiled, ostracized, despised, exhilarated by the rush of familiar rage-fueled sensations, overcome by elation.
I am sick and wise and childish, intelligent and weak.
I am every little thing I think of, and opposite as well, and nothing that is simple, clear, or easy just to write it out, or easy just to spell.
I am a paradox, a nonexistent everything that makes no sense at all.
I am a lie, I am oversimplified, I am alive, I am infinite confusion, I am lost in my seclusion.
I am something, maybe? Maybe not…
I am thinking, feeling, living…
Yes… I am doing quite a lot…


Scheme ABBCDEFGHIFJKJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1101000101111101111 1101100011111001011001001 11010010010001011111011011 11111010111110111111001101101001110001001111 1101000011101111001 110100001010010000101010101000100101001011000101100101010111010 1100100101100101001011010110010101010 11101010010001 111001011110100110101110111011111110111 11010001010111111 110111001011011110001011101010 111010101 11101010 11110101
Characters 1,435
Words 247
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 80
Words per line (avg) 18
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,116
Words per stanza (avg) 246

About this poem

This is what happens when you overthink things. Just be you. Don’t worry too much bout what that means.

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Submitted by WritingNoob on October 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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