Analysis of A Letter to My Rapist(s)
you took everything from me,
in under an hour.
stripped me of my purity,
my innocence.
i found an old poem i wrote as a sophomore in high school,
talking of childhood innocence.
i described it as a blanket.
i didn’t get that at the time i was still bundled up.
you came in and took my blanket away,
forever tampered with my sense of comfort.
my life will never be the same,
you ruined my life.
i wish that weren’t true,
wish i could say i am stronger than you,
wish i could move past all that you put me through,
wish secretly someone would kill you.
i want nothing more than for you to hurt the way that i do.
but that may never happen,
that i have no control of.
so instead i’ll cope, and heal,
and relapse again and again.
i’ll find little things to make me feel alright,
little ways to make the world you turned dark bright.
healthy or not,
good or bad,
at least the things that hurt me are only on me.
maybe you hurt me in a way i can control after all,
try to out hurt your hurt,
ruin myself more than you did.
at least my downfall would be on my own terms.
you taught me to mistrust,
to live in constant fear.
never feel completely at ease around men,
not friends, not family.
i had goals,
dreams.
used to be inspired.
sleep soundly, know peace.
be able to eat, learn, and feel alive.
fuck you,
fuck what you put me through,
fuck the joy i lost from you,
fuck the world you turned dark and blue,
fuck the people that came after you,
fuck the person you all turned me into,
fuck you.
Scheme | axab xbxx xcxx ddddd xxxeffxxa xcxx xxea xxxxx DdddddD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 010110 1111100 1100 11111011101011 1011100 10111010 1111101111101 1100111001 01010111110 11110101 11011 11111 1111111011 11111111111 11001111 111011111101111 1111010 1111011 1011101 00101001 1110111111 10111011111 1011 111 110111111011 101110011101101 111111 1011111 1111111111 111101 110101 10101011011 111100 111 1 111010 11011 1101110101 11 111111 1011111 10111101 101011101 1010111101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,517 |
Words | 351 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 9, 4, 4, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
A free verse, letter styled poem I wrote in 02/22 to, mainly, the man who raped me a few years ago in 2019. Written with improper capitalization and grammar, left unrevised.
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Written on 2022
Submitted by audreyhempburned on February 20, 2022
Modified on March 09, 2023
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