Analysis of When Boundaries become Barricades
I’m sorry
That my trauma
Was traumatic
For you
I’m sorry
That while I was bleeding out
I got blood on your shoes
And you had to choose
Me
Or the shoes
I don’t blame you though
'Cause you don’t know
And those were nice shoes
| Scheme | Axxx Axb bab ccb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 1110 1010 11 110 1111101 111111 01111 1 101 11111 1111 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
This poem is about family and the impact trauma and mental illness has on the whole family, often causing family members to put up boundaries due to the behavior from mental illnesses of the victim derived from the trauma. This poem is about when boundaries, which are healthy, become unhealthy and thus no longer boundaries, but cold with lack of any empathy for the victim.
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