Analysis of Baggage
One foot out the door.
More out than in.
How much longer can this take?
We all have baggage, but none weigh as heavy as the boulders placed in mine.
I give.
Give and I give.
Hardly do I ever take, for there are others more deserving.
My only gift received is a heart torn asunder.
I am a heretic, a lunatic.
A self-deprecating fool for one’s own affection.
Insanity is my very essence.
Repetition at its finest.
We all carry our baggage, some are a burden much too self-destructive.
I hide behind a mirroring mask.
Yet this mask has been set adrift and doused in century old fires.
All one sees from afar is a concrete wall with tiny scratches on its surface.
I gave, gave and I gave.
Through every drought, through every storm.
Love isn’t a reflection of who I am, but it could’ve strengthened the tide forming in this core of longing.
There is nothing left of me, I am drained beyond comprehension.
Only taking hits where I never knew they could wander.
There are no echoes in this silence and it is deafening.
My ears are ringing and my eyes are strained from gaslight.
I am an enigma, unhinged.
I have this baggage full of wounded kindness; yet the cause of it has gone astray.
I gave all that I could give.
This weight I carry will follow me into an early grave.
How much longer can this take?
One foot out the door,
More out than in.
I am still tethered to the baggage in this place.
Scheme | ABCx ddef xgxxd xxx hxe gfex xxdh CABx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1110 1110111 111101111101010101 11 1011 1011101111101010 1101011011010 110100010 011001111010 0100111010 0101110 1110101011010111010 110101001 11111101010100110 11110110011110101110 111011 1100111001 1100101111111100110011110 111011111101010 10101111011110 111100110011100 1111001111110 11101001 11110111010101111101 1111111 111101101011101 1110111 11101 1110 111101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,402 |
Words | 300 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
Too much baggage for one to carry. Someone being used until it became too heavy, yet they still give anyway.
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