Analysis of Mental Sediment
Melancholic smile, pensive language, pathetic posture,
Egregious thoughts, nihilistic; self-inflicted rapture,
Nonchalantly spewing poison towards fragile, weak minds,
Treacherous self-deception, psyche strangled in tight binds,
Antithesis the man; opposite, existentialism,
Laden with troubles, burdened; tunnel-visioned pragmatism.
Serenity, a rarity in this deep, bleak cavern,
Entrapped; imprisoned, a shoddy, flickering lantern,
Disgusted by self confinement, thoughts harden; sediment,
In his life, calloused by resentment, not one compliment,
Myopic was his attitude; lacking forward-thinking,
Entropy, a rapid spiral towards disorder; drinking,
No longer shall his aching pain prevail, drowned himself numb,
Towards blacking out he strives, before so, a depressed hum.
Scheme | AABBCC DDXXEECC |
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Poetic Form | Acrostic |
Metre | 0101101001010 01011101010 10101010011011 10010101010011 0100011001 1011010101100 01000100011110 0101001010010 01011010110100 01110101011100 0101110101010 100010100101010 11011101011011 0111110110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 778 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 318 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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This poem is an acrostic fourteener (fourteen lines with 14 syllables).
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