Analysis of What is growing up?
Iverson Taylor Smith 2004 (Oregon)
To be a child is living in its purest form.
This is life,
To know why
is much more than who I am.
But what is growing up?
To go through trauma, surrounded by a life full of drama,
To survive through our struggles,
taught to resolve conflict with a muzzle.
But to face the moments with pain, can drive some insane.
Those who stay kind
through each stage of the rain
Is a phenome so hard to explain.
Damaged, Bruised, Broken.
Through the stages of a shattered childhood
We still spread our light,
It is our god-given human right,
to choose who we are.
But yet I lay awake at Midnight
Wondering Who am I?
My thoughts take control tonight.
I may cry as,
I take the time to think about my life
In some ways, I wish to rewrite all of the violent nights.
I laid awake in the moonlight
overhearing gunfights.
Waiting till the next day,
to see the sunlight.
Standing with courage.
After years of learning on my own
To wake up and try each day
Even when I feel alone.
To try and understand those who no one spent to know
To make them feel value,
Talking to them
in hopes to hug them tomorrow
but
It was their last day, who knew?
Gone, are the days of memories.
In this life, we are taught to value the memories that bring us happiness
We are now taught to chase highs filled with addiction, What is this life that's become fiction.
What happened to me that was a child
That spent their days laughing
Filled with its own natural high
With crashes filled with
Cocoa and the sweet hugs from mom.
What if I wrote in these pages
how much I missed my mom.
I wish she was here to cry on the night of my prom
Now I lay awake tracing my arms, to remember her palm which always
Made the world feel calm.
I use to bottle these emotions, but I've learned to process
To relieve the constant
stress.
Through time alone I've learned
to create progress
To no longer repress these feelings
but
learn to express.
The most important love I've learned
is
love of self.
To be proud of who I tried to be,
and the life I choose to live.
To make the most of every day,
By giving all I have to give.
Scheme | xabxx xxx cxcc dxeex ebexafefge xhghijxiKj xx d xxbxlxllxl mxmnmxKmnxxxxgx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 110111001101 111 111 1111111 111101 111100101011110 10111010 1101101010 1110101111101 1111 111101 10111101 10110 101010101 111101 1110110101 11111 11110111 100111 1110101 1111 1101110111 011111011101001 1101001 0101 101011 1101 10110 101110111 1110111 1011101 110011111111 111110 1011 0111101 1 1111111 11011100 0111111100100111100 111111111010111110110 110111101 111110 11111001 11011 10001111 11110110 111111 1111111101111 11101101110100111 10111 11110101011111 101010 1 110111 1011 111001110 1 1101 01010111 1 111 111111111 0011111 110111001 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,101 |
Words | 464 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 4, 5, 10, 10, 2, 1, 10, 15 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
About this poem
This is the poem of my life in one way in which ive learned to control my emotions and better myself with self-love not validation from relationships when the only way you can grow is within.
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Written on April 11, 2022
Submitted by Whereisiverson on April 19, 2022
Modified by Whereisiverson on June 05, 2022
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