Analysis of Paradox

Sophia Bañaga 2001 (Dagupan City)



I am a combination of chaos and serenity.
Of equilibrium and inequality.
Of happiness and sadness.
Of anything that is a paradox.

I am a combination of any thing you want me to be.
Of life and death.
Of calmness and havoc.
Of black and white.
Of war and peace.

I could be all that...

For inside my head,
There is a labyrinth with zillions of paths and stories.
You could enter to see, but there's no way in hell you could get out of it.

When you see my insides, tell me how it looks.
I know it's decaying though,
For I'm dead on the inside very long time ago;
But manage to stay alive on the out until now.

Don't pity me.

Don't you ever feel sorry.

I chose to be this.

People who surrounds me did.


Scheme AAXX AXXXX X XXX XBBX A A X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11001011000100 1010000100 1100010 11011010 110010110111111 1101 110010 1101 1101 11111 10111 1101011011010 111011111101111111 11110111111 1110101 1111001101101 1101101101011 1101 1110110 11111 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 715
Words 170
Sentences 19
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 15

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This poem is all about me, and all those people who could relate to it.

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Written on August 22, 2019

Submitted by wsdmingreek on August 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sophia Bañaga

A 21-year old college student taking up Public Administration as a course from the Philippines. more…

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