Analysis of "Trans Lives"



The things
People don't understand
About being trans-

Is that we were always
The people we say we are.

We weren't ever
These silly people
You forced into boxes.


Scheme XXX XX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01 10101 01101 11101 0101111 11010 11010 110110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 162
Words 32
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 3
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 10

About this poem

In response to one of my mutual's tweets on Twitter.

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Written on March 05, 2024

Submitted by EtherealHydri on March 05, 2024

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Destiny Hanson

Hi! I actually go by a completely different name than my birth name but it's fine; I'm a disabled, nonbinary and queer af person who specialized in free verse poetry. It seems as though I've been writing in free verse my whole life without knowing until more recently, and that's the annoying part. I live in a group home, planning on going to college to learn more poetic forms on top of my free verse and words so I can get better at my proses and poetry. I LOVE Pokemon, I LOVE video games, i LOVE rock music and I absolutely love a lot of different things. I go under the name of "The Spiteful Poet" on Twitter and Facebook - because I have a lot of fire and am incredibly spiteful towards existence currently, and "Felix Wise" for my chosen name as a nonbinary person. Please respect my chosen name - there's a special meaning behind why I chose my name, and a story. I also go under the pen name of "Hydri", for reasons I will not specify to anyone unless the time comes to it, as someone with an esoteric nature. I run Actually Autistic Voices and The Neurodivergent Outlaw on Facebook, pages I created myself but I'm struggling keeping up with all of my social media activities, especially trying to shift into other things than social media even though I write poetry with a keyboard, not pencil and pen. I am a philosopher and I run information influx - an overload of information, my philosophy is esotericism. If you ever have any questions please let me know, I'm happy to educate on anything if my memory permits! more…

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