Analysis of the story of she
shauntell latrice rohner 1993 (kansas)
Birth,
wrongful life, someone lied,
shed have been better off had she died
age three,
a sister betrayed by brother
come now let us reason together
age four,
an absentee father
and overworked mother
age five,
a missing God, feeling like noah with the fly away dove
where is He, the one my soul loves?
age seven,
a kiss on the lips
sweetest sin, nothing better than this
age eleven,
blade to skin, from flesh to blood running,
soaking her shirt like rivers flowing
age twelve,
a rib here, a rib there
count the threads of her thin hair
age fourteen,
jurys out the verdict set
nothing to be done for it
age eighteen,
thrust through the heart,
couldnt go through, a coward from the start
age twenty-six,
shes diagnosed schizophrenic,
lost in a dusty haze of a battle field,call forensic
age twenty nine,
healing, healed, but a relapse, dreading
still not sure of the direction im heading
Scheme | XAA XBB XBB XXX CXX CDD XEE FXX FGG XHH XDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 10111 111101111 11 01001110 111110010 11 10110 00110 11 010110110101011 11101111 110 01101 101101011 1010 111111110 100111010 11 011011 1011011 111 110101 1011111 101 1101 111010101 1101 101010 10010110101010 1101 101100110 11110010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 903 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
my life in poetry form
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Written on January 20, 2023
Submitted by missy_sissy on January 20, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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