Analysis of Illusions



You never really do see me,
Which sounds so very odd
And yet the walls that came to be
The jail of my facade.

I've labored through so many years
To add each brick just right.
Within the walls and bars are fears.
No key is in my sight.

You also have not seen my jail,
Illusions help conceal
The parts of me that still prevail,
Which poems might reveal.

But if you never look beyond
The magic walls I use,
Then I will not hear you respond
In ways I wish you'd choose.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11010111 111101 01011111 011101 11011101 111111 01010111 111011 11011111 010101 01111101 110101 11110101 010111 11111101 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 468
Words 106
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Written on June 21, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on June 21, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on June 21, 2023

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