Analysis of You called it Love (pt. 1)
Shattering sounds of glass breaking,
Church bells ringing
and choir voices singing.
It's time to bid farewell to the power you had over me.
No closed fists, no more clenched jaws
No more bruises, except for those you
permanently etched on my heart.
My knees, they're on their way to healing.
The shakes are gone, the game is done.
It was fun while it lasted.
And when I say fun, I mean scarring to the body
When I say body, I mean every single person in this room today.
We are angry. We are also very sad, very regretful
How could we have let it happen?
But, how could we have ever known?
You called it love, sometimes called it discipline.
You said you were sorry but you lied
Because had it been the truth, I wouldn't be here today.
Walking out of that door for the final time,
And never to be seen again.
Scheme | AAABCDEAFGBHIFJFKHLM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10011110 1110 0101010 11111101011101 1111111 111001111 10001111 111111110 01110111 1111110 0111111101010 1111011100101001101 1110111010110010 11111110 11111101 11110111100 111010111 01111011101101 10111110101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 812 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 626 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem to confront the abuse I've endured from the person who found me at my most vulnerable and left me more disfigured than I thought I could ever be. I also wrote this poem in the third person, confronting myself for all the times I've claimed to love me, yet would still find ways to harm this body.
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Written on July 29, 2021
Submitted by degratialetupu on August 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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