Analysis of To & For The Misfits
Miras Jared Daliya 2002 (Mussoorie)
I don’t apologize if I don’t fit into your family rules,
My kind wasn’t meant to be with family.
I won’t tell you that those relationships are as good as dead,
You’ll only say that I fail to keep others.
I know where I stand and where others once stood,
My walk wasn’t made for everyone to walk alongside.
Those who did walk kept it secret,
That’s why they last as long as they do.
I wasn’t meant to play well with others,
I let truthful phrases out of my mouth,
I didn’t understand what a filter was.
Honesty wasn’t the best policy,
It was the harmful one.
I realized why lies were the real currency in speech.
They had a charm that made the truth appear like blasphemy.
Historically speaking,
That’s when I truly realized I was a sociopath,
Guilt meant nothing in the face of truth.
So I write my truth,
No matter how broken or hurt,
I write it so that you can indeed see me as I am.
Social acceptance means less than ignorance for me.
I had the habit of baring my teeth,
I had the habit of growling,
When I didn’t like what I saw or heard.
Observation makes it hard to refrain from reacting.
You see right and wrong,
Because you cannot know a mess if you’re in it.
You only see it when you take a few steps back.
Maybe this balcony view is lonely,
But it’s better than being a part of the mess.
I had a fire within me when I was born,
As a toddler I wasn’t understood,
My childhood held the very embers,
Of a remnant fire.
A few blows brought it all back.
The coals were waiting for me to light myself on fire,
The rest enjoyed the show.
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Metre | 1101011110111001 1111111100 11111101011111 11011111110 11111011011 111111011011 11111110 111111111 111111110 1110101111 110110101 100101100 110101 1101100110001 11011101011100 0100010 1111010110100 111000111 11111 11011011 11111110111111 1001011110011 1101011011 11010110 111111111 0101111011010 11101 011101011101 110111110111 1011001110 111011001101 110100111111 10101101 11101010 101010 0111111 0101011111110 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,579 |
Words | 344 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 7, 9, 7 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
About this poem
This is the 3rd poem from my latest book in the Mortala Trilogy on Amazon titled Anemoia. The title is from the dictionary of obscure sorrows and means “nostalgia for a time you’ve never known”, Mortala on the other hand means “unrelenting or deadly; involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death.”
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Written on December 31, 2021
Submitted by mirasdaliya on August 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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