Analysis of Madness
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
It ended in madness,
Whispers scattered,
The strings of reason
Stretched too thin,
As if reality
Were a fragile glass,
Shattered into splinters
Of doubt.
A mosaic
Of fragmented thoughts,
Each piece
Lost its meaning,
The jagged edges
Of confusion
Piercing the fragile
Fabric of sanity.
He became a marionette
Of discord,
His mind a chaos
Of unfinished sentences,
The syntax
Of his thoughts
Unraveled,
A tapestry
Of fragmented whispers.
Madness crept stealthily
Into the crevices,
Seeding doubt
Like a poisonous vine,
Twisting and constricting,
Consuming him whole,
Until he was lost,
Adrift in a turbulent sea
Of delusion.
The world became
A funhouse mirror,
Each reflection
A grotesque caricature,
Distorting reality
Into a hall
Of distorted mirrors,
Reflecting back
His broken self.
Words,
Once vibrant
And meaningful,
Now danced
In a nonsensical ballet,
A cacophony
Of disjointed syllables,
Losing their essence
In the maddening maze.
Clutching at straws
Of reason,
He groped through
The darkness,
Desperate
For an anchor,
But found only
The void of madness.
And as the final threads
Of lucidity unraveled,
He surrendered
To the embrace of insanity,
Finding solace
In the chaos,
The shattered remnants
Of his mind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 1010 01110 111 1110 00101 10011 11 0010 11001 11 1110 0110 1010 10010 101100 10101 110 11010 1010100 01 111 010 0100 110010 1011 010100 101 101001 100010 01011 01111 01001001 1010 0101 0110 1010 0011000 01010 0101 101010 0101 1101 1 110 0100 11 00010001 00100 1010100 10110 001001 1011 110 111 010 10 1110 1110 01110 010101 10100010 1010 100110100 1010 0010 01010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,259 |
Words | 266 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 68 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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