Analysis of Who Am I?



Who am I?
I ask myself every time I sit down and strike the page with my pen.
Who am I?
What traits do I exhibit that are worthy of pages of poetry?
Who am I?
Which emotions do I have that can be regurgitated into stanzas?
Who am I
To actually believe that any of my traits are deem-able worthy?
Who am I?
Nothing intact, thoughts running rampant like raging bulls in my brain.
Who am I
To expect ideas to come to me without putting in the work to find them?
Who am I?
Am I anyone if I can’t recite everything I am, was, will be?
Who am I
To think I’ll be anything at all?
Who am I
To put myself down and call myself a fraud and a liar?
“Who am I?” Is up to me.
Only I can decide.
Only I can accept defeat.
But I won’t.
That’s not who I am.


Scheme AbAcAdAcAeAfAcAgAhcijkl
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11110011110101111 111 111101011101101100 111 101011111110110 111 110001110111111010 111 1001110101101011 111 10101011110110001111 111 1110111011011111 111 11111011 111 1111011010010 1111111 10111 10110101 111 11111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 753
Words 177
Sentences 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 553
Words per stanza (avg) 158

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A poem about overcoming writer's block.

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Written on February 24, 2023

Submitted by AnthonyVanNus on May 24, 2023

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