Analysis of Self Competing



Difficult it is to defeat,
Anyone self competing.
And has been taught to reach,
A bettering of their own potential.
Blooming and permitted,
To continue to blossom and grow.

This potential unknown,
By others only shown...
A work still in progress.
To condone to then reveal...
What has been already accomplished.
An accomplishment concealed.
Prepared to reveal.
With a moving on to something else.

That something else,
Incapable to label or define.
Yet...
More challenging,
For one with a mind found to discover...
To be unsatisfied and seldom pleased,
By what has been done to achieve it.
That leaves a doing of it left behind.

And this to believe,
One who is self competing...
Has reached the limits of their creativity.
Although,
This self inflicting ambition,
To compete with oneself?
Is a life long commitment.
Having nothing to do with anyone else.
Who chooses to compete with the unknown!

'How is it that you do,
What it is done to do it?'

'Before, during or after?'

'I wish I knew to share that clue with you.'

'You don't know?'

'If I knew,
Why would I continue...
To compete with myself.
I would find it much easier,
To do that with you!'


Scheme XAXXXB CCXDXXDE EXXAFXGX XAXBXHXEC IG F I B IIHFI
Poetic Form
Metre 10011101 101010 011111 0100111010 100010 101011001 101001 110101 01101 1011101 111010010 1010001 01101 101011101 1101 0100110101 1 1100 1110111010 110100101 111111011 1101011101 01101 1111010 11010110100 1 11010010 10111 1011010 1010111101 1101011001 111111 1111111 0110110 1111111111 111 111 111010 10111 11111100 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,154
Words 250
Sentences 29
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 6, 8, 8, 9, 2, 1, 1, 1, 5
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Written on July 10, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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