Do You Bore Yourself
Do you bore yourself?
Do you rent the space
You’re standing in,
Owning nothing
But default
Do you recycle words
Until their utterance fails,
Do you mistrust your ability
To judge what’s right
Do you hedge your bets,
Never going all in
For fear of losing the very thing
That you haven’t got
Do you count the days,
As tedium destroys spontaneity
And all energy drains
From your lifeless form …
Do you bore yourself?
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 21, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A xbcx xxdx xbcx xdxx A d |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1 |
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