Analysis of All my phantom limbs



  To put your hands on me as a Woman ⅓ my size, you clearly
Have lost your mind!
  I'm standing here wearing dog tags & camouflage, so
  Toxic Feminity, if I fight dirty like you, is not your best ally.
  But since you keep reminding me that that kid is not my child,
  I have no choice but to salute, retreat, & say goodbye.
  Just know: If you really loved that child, you wouldn't have made that child---MY phantom limb for the rest of MY life.
   Women who use phantom limbs as human shields are either Poets or Demons.
    If you want to see which one you are---look at the kid crying right now & then go look in your mirror after midnight!
   What do you look like?


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111101011110 1111 11011011101 1011111011111110 111101011111111 111111010111 11111011111011111101101111 1011101110111010110 111111111110110111110110101 11111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 674
Words 135
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 494
Words per stanza (avg) 128

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Goodbye

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Written on December 29, 2021

Submitted by Censored2Death on December 29, 2021

Modified by Censored2Death on December 29, 2021

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