Analysis of When I Am Up (for Mental Health Month)
When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue.
When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William Shakespeare and William Jennings Bryan all in one.
When I am up, life is an eternity of perfect days punctuated by soul-shaking truths at every turn.
When I am up, every person I meet is a fount of infinite expectations.
When I am up, my momentous happiness is so moment-to-moment that if I look away for but an instant I might miss it all.
When I am up, I cannot turn away. I am a moth to the flame. I am Icarus. I am entranced by my own fire’s burning ballet. I am ablaze.
When I am up, I feel the gravity of every instant, weighing me down with the weight of it all as I struggle not to fall back to reality.
When I am up, I am alone. I am adrift on my sea of ideas — in search of my white whale, trying to stay within the white lines, staring into the glaring white light — without hope of rescue.
When I am up, I must come down…
-- by ThoughtsFromB4
| Scheme | A X X X X X X A X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111001101010011100101 11111110010001010101010101 1111111010010111001110111001 111110010111011100010 1111101010011101101111011111011111 11111101011101101111011011111010011101 1111110100110010101110111111101111110 1111110111011111010011111101101011100101011011110 11111111 11 |
| Characters | 1,021 |
| Words | 214 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 76 |
| Words per line (avg) | 20 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
This about the ups and downs of mental health, specifically related to bipolar.
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Written on May 06, 2024
Submitted by thoughtsFromB4 on May 06, 2024
Modified by thoughtsFromB4 on May 31, 2024
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