Analysis of Shaken baby



I did not ask you to be born
I'm now an object of your scorn
I irritate you when I cry
Please don't shake me; I might die
In ICU I lie in bed
I cannot think my brain is dead
A ventilator helps me breathe
Sometimes my body starts to seize
Dilated pupils I can't blink
Into a coma I slowly think
The outcome of your violent act
I can't recover, a tragic fact
Social service now reports this crime
In jail you surely will do time
So if you shake me I may die
I leave this earth and wonder why


Scheme AABBCCDEFFGGHHBB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 11110111 1101111 1111111 011101 11011111 0100111 01110111 01010111 010101101 01111001 110100101 101010111 01110111 11111111 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 474
Words 103
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 381
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted on August 10, 2017

Modified on April 05, 2023

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