Analysis of Bad memories
Yvette M Sanchez 1964 (Ohio)
I once was a little girl,
And my Mommy's pearl.
Then one day my innocense was lost,
Left out in the frost.
I tried to tell my Mommy,
But she believed her hubby.
She said I was promiscuios.
It sounded ridiculous.
I'm only 9 years old,
I've been told.
I didn't even know what the word meant at all.
And I was only so many inches tall.
I was just a little girl,
With so many curls.
Then I realized I must have done something wrong.
So I would cry my sad song.
Wondering why my Mommy let the bad man hurt me,
Why could'nt she see?
All my pain,
Was all in vain.
My life was never the same,
After he made me play a game.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 01101 1111111 11001 1111110 1101010 11111 1100100 11011 111 110101101111 01110110101 1110101 11101 11101111101 1111111 1001110101111 1111 111 1101 1111001 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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