Analysis of A lesson in Bullying



The damage is done, it can't be reversed,
A victim of bullies - I hadn't rehearsed.
It wasn't a fist, it wasn't a stick,
The method of torment they chose to inflict.

I'm hard on the outside so inside they went,
attacking my psyche with vicious intent.
Like wolves work together, devising a plan,
The aim to make suffer as best as they can.

They start Chinese whispers that fast start to flow--
Cast looks of raw evil so clear to show.
It wasn't the damage that so made me hurt,
It was more that my brothers could treat me like dirt.


Scheme AAXX BBCC DDEE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 0101111101 01011011001 1100111001 0101111101 11101110111 01011011001 11101001001 01111011111 11011011111 1111101111 11001011111 111111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 521
Words 102
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 28, 2013

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Kev Green

Just a person who might have suffered more than his fair share of suffering but still lives to tell the tale. Found writing and writing found me. Everything I do is dedicated to my dear Wife and children Emma and Jamie and my mentor Rob Middlehurst. more…

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