Analysis of Dear Parents
Libby Mullery 2003 (Galway)
Dear parents,
I know you loved me,
I know you cared,
And although I seen you,
You were never really there.
You held me up,
But you also brought me down,
And there I was left,
Left waiting to be found.
And as I grew up,
To be a girl in her teens,
My emotions became a problem,
They could be felt but they could not be seen.
I lay awake at night,
Fearing those monsters beneath my bed,
The ones you were meant to save me from,
But there I was, left for dead.
I had to be my own warrior,
I had to learn to fight for myself,
I could see it in your eyes,
I was just another book on the shelf.
A dusty old book,
Another chapter discarded,
As the emotions started to loom,
I was left there broken hearted.
The woman I am today,
You claim to have created,
Yet when I needed you,
I just stood there and I waited.
It was me who picked up the pieces,
But to you that never mattered,
And as I sat there on my own,
I finally heard the glass shatter.
So dear parents,
I should probably thank you,
Because it was you who gave me life,
Yet it was me that saved myself,
When you slowly drew the knife.
Scheme | AXXBX CXXX CXDX XEDE FGXG XXXH XHBH XXXF ABIGI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110 11111 1111 01111 1010101 1111 1110111 01111 110111 01111 1101001 101001010 1111111111 110111 101100111 011011111 1111111 111111100 11111111 1111011 1110101101 01011 01010010 100101011 11111010 0101101 1111010 111101 11110110 111111010 11111010 01111111 110010110 1110 1110011 011111111 1111111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,098 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
A poem I wrote when trying to validate my emotions towards my parents.
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