Analysis of Echoes



I could no longer play through all the pain.
Inner demons crush me like a freight train.
My family relations became strained.
People slander me with their lying tongue.
Their artistry paints me as a vile rogue.
Finding the true me is never in vogue.
Fighting misperceptions make me weary.
For all my strides, my life was still dreary.
How could their eyes still look at me leery?
To acquaintances, I'm a dream come true,
But my closest kin have me misconstrued,
And that want change with this poetic rue.
I'm driven by the dark echoes of a foster home's walls.
Vilify me but that want make me divert from God's call.


Scheme AABCDDEEEFGFHI
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 1010111011 1100010011 1010111101 1100111011 1001111001 1000101110 1111111110 1111111110 1010010111 111011101 0111110101 11010110101011 1011111101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 603
Words 112
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 485
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on November 11, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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