Analysis of Little Girl
A journey that began laced with pain,
She tried to rise above it time and again,
Little girl did all the things she was told,
Little girl died inside at 12 years old.
The fear in her turned into anger and hate,
Little girl lost her whole world, her best mate,
Still she knew that she had to smile to survive,
She never knew how it felt to be truly alive.
As little girl grew she told her true self to hide,
She locked her away safely hidden inside,
Little girl forgotten, drowned out by the numb,
She never imagined what she'd become.
Now after all these years of hating who I see,
I realise it's because that person really wasn't me,
I remembered little girl and I was suddenly aware,
I wondered where I left her, would she still be there?
I looked at her in photo's to give myself a clue,
I found a key along the way, then the door came too,
Little girl was terrified with eyes filled with disgust,
I held her in my arms and overtime I built up trust.
Little girl is with me once again, teaching me,
Who it actually is that I was always meant to be,
Learning how to care for what we keep within,
Finally together, our real life we now begin.
Scheme | XXAA BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII FFJJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 010101111 11110111001 1011101111 101101111 01001011001 1011011011 11111111101 1101111111001 110111101111 11001101001 10101011101 1100101101 110111110111 1110111010101 101010101110001 110111011111 11100111101 1101010110111 101110111101 1100110101111 101111101101 1110011111111 10111111101 10001010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,176 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
This poem is about the pain from my childhood trauma. Losing myself, the road to healing, and finding out who I was always meant to be.
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