Elise
I was meant to be named Elise
but my aunt stole that name away from
my mother—from me
I never felt like an Elise anyways,
but even so I’ve always felt a strange ownership
of the name and when the girl named Elise sat
in the back of my painting class, I felt a kind of
kinship to her, perhaps in name or what might
have been in name.
About this poem
This poem was based on a true story. I was supposed to be named Elise and I shared a paint class with a girl with the same name. Naturally I had to write a poem out of it.
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Written on 2020
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on April 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6 |
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