Analysis of Chaos
Melissa Honrud 1994 (Fargo ND)
I’ll never understand the madness,
The inner workings of the heart,
..How we can strive to be so close,
Yet internally,
Feel miles and miles apart.
There seems to be no fail safe,
No ”time out” to this game,
Days and days go by,
Admittedly,
I feel my over-eagerness is to blame.
I just want to warm you,
My love like sunshine on your skin,
I want to make you happy,
And see your cheeky grin.
I want to be your everything,
Your bright light in this dim world,
Your lighthouse in safe harbors,
Your overabundant sureness,
Like a knight with his sword.
But it seems to me,
More and more,
Once I open my mouth,
I offer nothing but discord.
The more I ponder these scufflings,
The more I feel unsure,
The more that I helplessly flounder,
And leave heart ache at my door.
So Lord won’t you help me,
Bring a calm to this storm,
For through my over ambitions,
Chaos is irrevocably born.
Scheme | ABXCB XDXCD XECE XXXAF CGXF AXXG CXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001010 01010101 11111111 10100 110101 1111111 111111 10111 0100 11110100111 111111 1111111 1111110 011101 1111110 1110111 110110 111 101111 11111 101 111011 11010110 0111011 011101 011110010 0111111 111111 101111 11110010 101010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 898 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
This poem is an attempt to put in to words the feeling of yearning for a love you once felt or had.
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Written on January 11, 2023
Submitted by melissahonrud26 on January 11, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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