Analysis of Hiding the pain
Kendrala K. Norton 1992
He hurts you constantly
And all you can do is think of him
You can’t get him off your mind
The bruises on your fragile body
Remind you only of the pain
But you fell head over heals it’s insane
His caring side the only thing you see in his eyes
Your friends don’t understand why you’re with the guy
Hiding the pain you show him love
While all your friends pray to up above
Will he take it to far
Will you even notice
The pain he puts you through
The bruises on your arm
Oh they are so deep and blue
The tears in your eyes represent the hurt
Build yourself strong make you more reassert
Hiding the pain isn’t worth the time
What he does honey it’s called a crime.
Scheme | ABCADDEFGGHIJKJLLMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100 011111111 1111111 010111010 01110101 1111101101 1101010111011 1110111101 10011111 111111101 111111 111010 011111 010111 1111101 010110101 101111101 10011101 111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 522 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
About this poem
I wrote this Poem in 2006 when I was in middle school and dating a boy who was much older than me.
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