Analysis of the wall and the road
In the city of my mind,
I have this wall.
This tall, large, thick, wall.
I used to be able to ignore it,
Everything I ever needed to do was inside the limits of my wall.
When I was small, I was curious and traveled to the very edge.
“That’s farther than most kids your age go,” they said.
I just nodded my head and went along.
But as I grew up, the closer to the wall I was required to go,
Until eventually, I was face-to-face with it,
Unable to go through.
“I can’t go past here,” I said,
“There’s a wall blocking my path.”
“No there isn’t,” they said,
“It’s the road. Everyone has them. That’s just what its like.”
I didn’t agree, but I tried anyway.
I couldn’t walk through, so I tried to dig down,
I ended up hitting rock bottom.
“That’s not how you walk the road,” they said,
mocking my dirty face.
I tried again.
I tried to climb the wall.
Using ridges and ledges, I climbed.
Miles, it seemed, I climbed, but went nowhere.
Until I made a misstep and fell back down.
“You’re so clumsy,” they said
“Do it again, but actually try this time.”
I did. I tried again.
And again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
Yet I could never get past this wall.
I eventually started calling out to my friends on the other side.
“It’s just a brick road,” my friends said,
“Some have more cracks, but it is all the same.”
That’s when I looked up at this towering,
Monstrous solid cinderblock wall,
and all I could say was,
“This is not a road”
I was a fish judged on how I could climb,
or a cat on their ability to bark.
“There is a wall, I can’t get through,”
I say.
“It’s just a road”
they say.
Scheme | xaa bax c x xbd cx cx efx cx gaxxf chg GGGG ax cx xax i hx de ie |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010111 1111 11111 1111101011 101101011101010111 11111110001010101 11011111111 1110110101 111110101011101011 01010001111111 010111 1111111 1011011 11111 101101111111 110111110 1111111111 110110110 111110111 101101 1101 111101 101001011 11111111 01110010111 111011 11011100111 111101 001 001 001 001 111101111 1010001010111110101 11011111 1111111101 1111111100 101011 011111 11101 1101111111 10111010011 11011111 11 1101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,804 |
Words | 382 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 5, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
This was written when I was asked how I felt about receiving a late diagnosis for a learning/neurological disability.
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