Analysis of Spiritual jargon

Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)



They hate those words

That might set them free

I'm lost in a forest

Out to sea

I'm still just a child

In a world so big

Not knowing where to turn

Not knowing when to speak

The spiritual world got me all messed up

I thought I knew something

I'm actually stuck

My head is swimming

With a thousand little thoughts

Even though outside of me

People are distraught

My beliefs won't change anything

But they never die

They're stuck in my head

And they make me dry

I can't speak to others

I don't know what to say

At a point I knew everything

Now it's just decayed

Into a million little pieces

Of who I once was

I've regressed to the point of innocence

Yet I'm still so lost

I'm no good at poetry

I can't write worth a damn

I stretch and try and push

And it still comes out like garbage

I wish I was smart like the others

I try so hard

They all know more than me now

I'm tired and charred

Like a log set ablaze

By its own dying ember

Maybe someday I'll realize

What it's like to remember


Scheme X A X A X X X X X B X B X A X B C X C D X B X X X X X A X X X D E X E X F X F
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 11111 110010 111 11101 00111 110111 110111 01000111111 111110 11001 11110 1010101 1011111 10101 1011110 11101 11011 01111 111110 111111 1011110 11101 010101010 11111 111011100 11111 1111100 111101 110101 01111110 111111010 1111 1111111 11001 101101 1111010 101110 1111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,034
Words 252
Sentences 1
Stanzas 39
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 20
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by kbdallas2020 on March 20, 2024

Modified by kbdallas2020 on March 20, 2024

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