Analysis of Dear Anxiety



Dear Anxiety,
What are you afraid of?
Are you afraid of me?
Are you afraid of the day our roles are reversed?
Are you afraid of the day you knock at my door and what happens isn't what you rehearsed?
Are you afraid of me having control?
Afraid of losing the one thing you know, me?
I, I  have nothing to fear,
Nothing to lose
You're in control, you made that clear  
But I'm not scared of you.
I'm not scared of losing what i've never had
Control
I have nothing to lose
But you, you have everything to lose
I want you to remember that
When you become my defining component
When you pursue my every moment,  
When nothing feels like a guarantee
I want you to remember
You'd be nothing without me


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Poetic Form
Metre 10100 111011 110111 1101101101101 1101101111110110101101 1101111001 01110011111 1111011 1011 10011111 111111 11111011101 01 111011 11111011 11110101 11011010010 1101110010 11011001 1111010 1110011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 707
Words 150
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 536
Words per stanza (avg) 135

About this poem

This poem is about reversing the role anxiety plays in my life. I want this poem to represent the way anxiety treats me, but how I am able to take control of that.

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Submitted by ryanlomber54 on August 30, 2023

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