Analysis of Head Space
Jamie Jenkins 1999 (AL)
-Who are you? Why are you?
I am you; we’re the same; I live in your brain. To explain me is to explain you. Is it easier now?
-No. Who are you, and who am I?
It’s unspoken, but you know it. Better than anyone else could or should.
-That sounds good; now why are you existent?
I can’t say, nor can you. I’m your fear and desire, your love, hate, and fire. I’m everything between your heaven and your hell. You get it now? I am you. You are me. But the space between us is contingent on our existence.
-Let's clarify, solidify, and make it all integrate into what makes sense.
Go! Don’t be so tense.
-So you are me; we aren’t the same. But we have the same brain? Though we both strive for the best for each other, yet, you condescend me? Immediately, we have the same emotion but don’t control the same fortune. The way you are in my brain is tormenting. You are a misfortune as a portion of you, if lives to this day. No answer I asked was given. That’s why we’ll never be the same.
You’re closer than expected, but still far off. There is more to the story than your own glory and flourishing. So goodbye for now, soon to arrive, back into our brains, of truth and lies.
-Goodbye; you’re torturing me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11100111011101111011111001 11110111 10101111101101111 1111111010 11111111100101110101100111001111111111111010111010110010 11001001111001111 11111 1111110011110111111101111011011010001101010110101100111011110110010101011111111101111011110101 110101011111111010111100100111111011011011101 111001 |
Characters | 1,235 |
Words | 251 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 82 |
Words per line (avg) | 21 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
Conversation with a voice called our conscience.
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Written on September 05, 2023
Submitted by SnakeEyes1908 on September 05, 2023
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