Analysis of Let go of the pain



In my youth, I harboured blame,
Wishing you, my father, bore a different name.
Bullied and bruised, I cursed your every deed,
As fights with my mother made her heart bleed.
Stress consumed my days, even in merry times,
Christmas and birthdays tinged with fears and chimes.
Her burdens weighed heavy, my young heart ached,
Each passing year, those memories never slaked.
Looking back, the darkness cast its cruel spell,
No child should endure what I faced, what I felt.
But now, as a mother, healed from the past's cruel art,
I've found the strength to forgive, to mend my broken heart.
You, too, once a child, bore burdens untold,
Carrying the weight of a past you couldn't withhold.
In your pain, you hurt us, tearing our world apart,
My mother, her anguish etched deep, her wounded heart.
But I've heard you found peace, that you're finally free,
And, to my surprise, it brings solace to me.
I forgive you, father, and let go of the pain,
For in forgiveness, a new chapter I gain.


Scheme AABBCCDBEFGGHHGGIIJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 011111 101110101001 10011111001 1111101011 10111100101 100111101 0101101111 11011100101 10101011101 11101111111 1110101101101 1101101111101 1110111001 1000110111001 0111111010101 110010110101 111111111001 01101111011 101110011101 10010011011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 982
Words 194
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 758
Words per stanza (avg) 175

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finding forgiveness and setting myself free from a painful past.

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Written on December 14, 2023

Submitted by Kirsty_1 on December 14, 2023

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