Analysis of “Angel”



To my tiny unborn soul
Whose life never came to be
It doesn’t mean I love you less
But would your life have made less of me

Oh to be a mother
A blessing to be sure
The circle of life completed
A birth is something so pure

Is that all I am supposed to do
Is that all that’s expected of me
It sounds so selfish
But is that all I really mean

I chose not to give you life
You came to me too soon
I knew I could never give you
The sun , the stars, the moon

If I can’t do it in this life
Should others make that call
Should those who rule the land today
Decide a woman’s life at all

And so my little Angel
I will keep you in my heart
If we meet again someday
May we never be apart


Scheme XAXA XBXB CAXX DECE DFGF XHGH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 1110111 1110111 1111111 111111111 111010 010111 01011010 0111011 111110111 111101011 11110 11111101 1111111 111111 11111011 010101 11111011 110111 11110101 101111 0111010 1111011 111011 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 670
Words 148
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

This is about having to make a choice whether to bring a child into the world , the ramifications of that, heartbreak , and whether laws should legislate that choice .

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Written on October 15, 2021

Submitted by Terrilou on February 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Terri McCallister

Terri McCallister is a Texas based poet. She has been published in "Beyond Haiku" Women Pilots Write Poetry. She is currently working on works of fiction, and always, another poem! more…

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