Analysis of Voices
LaDonna Hale 1986 (Detroit, MI)
You are worthless
You are ugly
You are better off dead,
You’ll never be great
You will always fail
You are dumb
You are unloved
Voices, please hear my cry
I am beautiful
I am priceless
I am perfect alive
I will not be great but extraordinary
I will always win
I am intellectually keen
I am loved by everyone around me
Voices hear my decree
You will no longer bring me down as I have learned to love myself for who and what God has made me into.
You are no longer welcome in my head
You will only haunt those who minds are dead
You have ruined my life so many times
Don’t worry I love and take care of mine.
| Scheme | ABC XXXX XXAX BXXB B X CCXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1110 111011 11011 1111 111 1101 101111 11100 1110 110101 1111110100 1111 11010001 111110011 101101 1111011111111111101111101 1111010011 1110111111 1110111101 1101101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 593 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Just thinking and trying to eliminate the voices in my head.
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