Analysis of Maybe boys don't have tears
i had heard stories enough from grandfather
stories that could light up movie theaters
if i were a director
but never told me bed rocks
beneath waterfalls bleed with sweats
like the boy who couldn't sleep
because the song of hunger is repeatedly
maintaining its rhythm through his small intestine
like September rain,
yet he shows no tears to the society
like fishes in the depth of the Atlantic,
maybe boys have eyes that are only exposed to pain
&
their tears are secured in the heavens
they fall as rain when pain fills them up
Scheme | ABACDEFGHFIH JK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001110 10111110100 1100010 1101111 0110111 1011101 010111010100 010110111010 10101 11111100100 11000110010 1011111100111 1 111010010 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
About this poem
this poem speaks of the pain the lies in the chest of every boys out there
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Written on September 18, 2022
Submitted by Benyeakeh on September 18, 2022
Modified on March 10, 2023
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