Analysis of The Poisoned Youth
We are the poisoned youth.
We have spite in our blood
and our blood flows
like the anger in our minds.
Our heart palpates with the fear of our loved ones.
We are the poisonous youth.
We are the poisoned girls.
With pink in our hair
and dimples in our cheeks.
We have spite in our blood,
and our blood flows
Like anger in our minds.
Our hearts beat with the love of our fellow women.
We are the poisonous girls.
But we poisoned girls are also poisoned boys.
With blue in our bruises and punched-in teeth.
We have spite in our blood that flows like the anger in our minds.
Our hearts beat with the passion of our fellow boys.
We are the poisonous boys.
We are pink and blue and red with the scabs and scars of our fallen ancestors.
The ones who were told that they weren’t allowed to exist but did anyway.
The ones who are in the history book with nothing but a mugshot and obituary.
The ones who were tied burned at the stake. The ones with cracked blood vessels as an aftermath of a hate crime.
The anger runs long and it runs deep.
You see why we are the poisoned turned poisonous.
We are people that are girls and boys and everything in between and nothing at all.
No matter what we are the poisoned youth.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 1110101 01011 10100101 101110111011 1101001 110101 110101 0100101 1110101 01011 1100101 10111011101010 1101001 11101110101 11010100101 11101011110100101 10111010110101 1101001 1110101101011101010 01101111011011110 011100100111010100100 011011101011111011101011 010110111 111110101100 11101110101000101011 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,232 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 13 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
About this poem
This poem is about rebellion, gender fluidity, and queer history.
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