Analysis of I am PAIN
Betty Acosta 1956 (Aiaeger W.Virginia)
While all the world is sleeping
And I'm lying in my bed
There is no sleep for me tonight
The pain is screaming in my head
I can't ever sleep anymore
The pain has stolen that too
It has taken everything that I was
And there's nothing I can do.
I wish I was a wife again
And I wish that I could play
With my grandbabies that I adore
But the pain took them away.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDBD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101110 0110011 11111101 01110011 1110101 0111011 111010111 0110111 11110101 0111111 11101101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 348 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I suffer from intractable chronic pain syndrome. I had a tumor in my spine and when they removed it they discovered all my discord crushed so they had to wrap a metal wrap or cage around it to keep it from collapsing and then they screwed a large metal plate into my back to attach it to to keep it in place and to keep my spine from collapsing and since that happened I am an excruciating pain 24 hours a day and I no longer am who I was the pain has taken everything away from me I'm no longer a wife no longer a mother no longer a foster parent no longer volunteer no longer a grandmother which was my favorite part of my life being a grandmother and a foster parent and I miss doing both and now all I am is pain 24 hours a day pain because I can't sleep anymore because of insomnia because of the pain is so extreme it doesn't let me sleep
Written on October 01, 2021
Submitted by Bettyboop56a on September 28, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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