Analysis of Depression



Insecurities they eat you alive
Leaving you vulnerable with nowhere to hide
Plunging into your self-made depression
Learning later it was just an obsession
You smile at the thought of infliction
Then the pain soon becomes an addiction
It hurts but you've learned to abide
Your loved ones you push them aside
Sorrow is your only emotion
To this disease you have made your devotion


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 010011101 10110001111 1001111010 10101111010 111011010 1011011010 11111101 11111101 101110010 11011111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 370
Words 65
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on August 08, 2017

Modified on May 03, 2023

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