Analysis of Delusional
Do I delude myself that I can write,
or is it fanciful simulation,
born in the annals of boredom or sloth.
Do those who read my triflings feel pity,
like pathetic fallacy trapped in thoughts
my brain indulges and encapsulates.
Idle tears, if they could fall, would trickle
in oceans of morose narcissism,
dousing my ego and drowning sorrows.
Do I survey fields of autumnal bliss,
in my journey into these twilight years,
when time should be my master not my slave.
Or is this sense of loathing Alzheimer’s?
Does it message, or presage, disaster -
am I the only one who can’t see it?
Like the sole, silent witness to my crime,
my mind sinks low below the underworld,
in which I harbour grief in nature’s yawn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111 111100010 1001011011 111111110 1010100101 1101001 1011111110 010101100 1011001010 1101110101 011001111 1111110111 11111101 1110110010 1101011111 1011010111 111101010 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Selfish reflection - I write because I know I can, and my ego wants to show off!
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