Analysis of I Must No Longer be Me
Life isn’t what it used to be,
It hasn’t been very good to me.
I wander through this world looking for purpose, hiding my pain just below the surface.
Wearing this mask of happiness, while inside I feel pain and emptiness.
Walking down this long and lonely road in the pouring rain, I feel lost, alone and in terrible pain.
The pain is unbearable, it’s more than I can stand, slowly it’s consuming me like quicksand.
I’m helpless, I’m trapped and I have no doubt, that there is only one way out.
There is only one way I can truly be free, I must no longer be me….
| Scheme | AABBCDEA |
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| Metre | 1111111 11110111 110111101101011101010 101111001011110100 1011101010010111101001001 0110100111111101010111 110110111111110111 1110111110111111011 |
| Characters | 579 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 54 |
| Words per line (avg) | 14 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
About this poem
Written in some of my darkest days.
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