Analysis of Myself

Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)



I realise now I was never myself.
Following the crowd left me bereft.

To self-conscious to show my hand,
Deigning myself, a cowardly sham.

Like a square peg in a round hole,
Trying to fit was selling my soul.

Leaving me broken, I reaped what I sowed.
The pit was deepening, no where to go.

But that was then and this is now.
This is me,
Now I bow.


Scheme XX XX AA XX BXB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 100011101 11101111 10101001 10110011 101111011 1011011111 0111001111 11110111 111 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 358
Words 83
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 14

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Written on June 02, 2023

Submitted by myway6119 on June 01, 2023

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