Analysis of Love and Depression

Alicia Baker 1996 (Monticello, Ky)



People sometimes belittle you to make themselves feel better,

People sometimes express themselves through a nasty letter,

People put people through what they call “tough love” or whatever.

People sometimes express themselves through violent smacks,

Instead of something through no words and silent acts.

People sometimes don’t care who they hurt when they are in pain,

They take their anger out on you like you’re the blame,

for their agonizing pain.

Then you think finally going to be happy,

Then you realize life can be crappy.

As you fall to the bathroom floor,

The tears start to pour more and more.

You start to realize “What is my life meant for?,”

People always leave me and walk out that door.

That’s when she starts to cut

Then the tears and blood start to pour more and more.

You done it for a couple years,

You also shed plenty of tears for many years.

Then one day something spoke to you “You need to think about the people who love you.”

“Think about what if something happened to you. Think about how they would feel if you died”

Then you collapsed on the floor and realized what you were doing and cried,

And cried, because you felt like your joy inside of you died.

Starting from that day you made and promise and swore “I will never cut my skin again.”

From that day on you never cut again, but started to let your feelings and emotions out through words on paper and a pen.

Then it was an uphill battle until you met a guy and he broke your heart,

Then soon you realized that you shouldn’t cry and that you were better off apart from the start.

It was a up and down battle for years,

You realized that you finally made it through all that pain and tears.

Months went by then you started to feel better,

You started to writing to express yourself letter by letter.

You realized that all those voices that you heard were wrong,

and you realized you are very strong.


Scheme A A A X X B X B C C D D D D X D E E X F F F G G H H E X A A I I
Poetic Form
Metre 100101011101110 10010101101010 10110111111110 1001010111001 011101110101 10011111111101 111101111101 1110001 111100101110 11101111 1111011 01111101 11110111111 1011101111 111111 10101111101 11110101 110110111101 11110111111101010111 101111010111011111111 11011010101101001 01011111101111 101111101001111011101 1111110101110111100010111110001 1111111001110101111 111101111011010101101 1101011011 1101110011111101 11111101110 1101101010110110 1101111011101 011011101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,944
Words 357
Sentences 18
Stanzas 32
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 46
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by blueeyedbooklover on March 12, 2021

Modified on March 15, 2023

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