Insanity
Insanity
When your reality is yours and yours alone
this weird extrality
is madness to the bone
When your normality is trite and indiscrete
this weird banality
is madness on the street
When your duality is match and opposite
this weird plurality
is madness by the split
When your causality is tough and eccentric
this weird vitality
is madness for the sick
When your modality is voice and peculiar
this weird orality
is madness in the slur
When your mentality is rude and unaligned
this weird totality
is madness of the mind
© Wallace Dean LaBenne
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 27, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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