Analysis of Why Mom?
Will I stay alive or will I be dead?
That’s what the baby inside said.
Will you keep me and let me have life?
Just because you aren’t husband and wife.
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want me.
I promise I’ll be who you want me to be.
I won’t get to play or go to the park.
Instead, I’ll be left here in the dark.
People make mistakes every step of the way.
Why are you going to make me pay?
I won’t have anything, not even a voice.
Just because my mom made the wrong choice.
-Megan Marie Stead
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111111 11010011 111101111 1011101001 110111111 11011111111 1111111101 011111001 101011001101 111101111 1111011001 101111011 10011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 517 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 373 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem in 2001, when I was 14 years old. It was on poetry.com for years but I noticed now that it is gone. I would like it re-submitted please.
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Written on May 20, 2001
Submitted by snapper27 on February 22, 2023
Modified on May 03, 2023
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