Analysis of I Was My Mother's Consequence
I have now served my purpose
And am now done with your harm
Although I can still feel it
Deep within my heart
I dream of you holding me again
With love and reassurance
But then I remember the person you are
And how you used us
I tore down your world
as you tore mine
In hopes that it would make you kind
But all you found after
just continued to make you blind
With a young innocent mind
Unbenounced to the truth
You created scars in me
That I can only see in you
I thought the tears I would cry
Would make it untrue
You used me although
I still see myself in you
I hope my absence hurt
I hope it showed you truth
I will never be the same
Because of how you destroyed my youth
I'm not sorry I left
And I don't wish you were here
Now that you’re off with your new family
I’ll just disappear
Although now I’m living with love
I can say I succeeded
I wasn't the daughter you wanted
but I was the daughter you needed
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 0111111 111111 10111 111110101 110010 11101001011 01111 11111 1111 01111111 111110 10101111 1011001 1101 1010101 11110101 1101111 11101 1111 111101 111101 111111 1110101 011110111 111011 0111101 1111111100 1101 1111011 1111010 110010110 111010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 896 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 31, 2 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 360 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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