Analysis of I don’t want to be part of that world

Tonya Richardson 1968 (Mississippi)



I don’t want to be where the people are, I don’t want to see their angry faces.
I don’t want to hear their loud voices, I don’t want to listen to their lousy cases.
I don’t want to be where they lie and hurt each other, doesn’t matter if it’s their sister or brother. Out where they steal, out where they kill, out where they think the only cure is a pill. Safe here in my house, just me and my spouse. Don’t want to be part of that world.


Scheme AAB
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11111101011111111010 111111110111110111010 1111111101110110111101101111111111110101101110111101111111111
Characters 457
Words 92
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 110
Words per line (avg) 30
Letters per stanza (avg) 330
Words per stanza (avg) 90

About this poem

I was just thinking about how bad this world has gotten and this is what was in my head.

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Written on January 01, 2024

Submitted by Athomentexas2002 on January 01, 2024

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Tonya Richardson

I’m a 54 year old married mother of 2 daughters. I suffer from severe anxiety and depression. Poetry is my way of coping. more…

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