Analysis of Moral High Ground
I don't have a moral high ground anymore.
And I've realized that expectations always let you down.
I don't need a thing to be just perfect anymore.
Spent so much time looking into eyes to find that nothing's there.
So, I don't search for perfect anymore.
And I don't expect another to see the good in me.
Seen the chaos in too many souls to even know what good could mean.
All I know is that that one small word has never set me free.
All I know is that that one small word has been the death of me.
The more I live the more I see the synchronicity,
in the desire to be good and the fear of being seen.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101101 011010101111 111011110101 111110011111101 111110101 01101010110101 10100110111011111 111111111110111 111111111110111 01110111000100 000101110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
About this poem
This poem dives into the idea of "being good" vs. being who you are intrinsically and letting go of expectations of yourself and others.
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