Analysis of Baby Boy Burned



I walked in to the Emergency Room unprepared for what I saw,

Burned from side to side a crying baby so small.
I looked at the father and asked what went wrong,
Little did I know, getting the truth would take all night long.
It’s easy to lose control sometimes with our kids,
But as parents we have to learn how to hold that anger within.
No matter what the baby done, it would never justify what I learned this parent did.
A one year old little boy learning how to walk and explore,
Who’s always into everything and never to be ignored.
He smiles with happiness with each new step he takes,
then dad comes home mad, and this baby makes a mistake.
He struck him on the leg but didn’t think that was rough,
So he took it even further not realizing he’d done enough.
He crossed a line no parent should ever cross,
Just to show an infant that he was the boss.
As this precious child lays in a hospital bed in agony and in pain,
You now sit in your jail cell because you’re the one to blame.
When you think of him, I hope your thoughts drive you insane.
The baby you hurt who you thought couldn’t cry for help,
Was heard loud and clear when I saw the burns and bruises you left.
Today, he is cared for and loved from the outside in,
and for you, you will never place your hands upon his tiny body again.
For the child who was burned and abused, unable to make a fuss,
Is the baby boy that took your freedom with a little help from us.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,446
Words 305
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 46
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,113
Words per stanza (avg) 282

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I’m a criminal Investigator and this poem was written after a call I investigated.

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Written on June 10, 2007

Submitted by nlacey216 on December 03, 2023

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Wendy Nichols

Hi, I am from Tennessee, I'm 44 years old, a mother of two beautiful twins, a grandmother of identical twin girls, and one grandson. I have always loved to write; it's always been a way for me to get somewhere quiet and just relax. Writing has become an outlet for me to get things off my mind and vent a little through that writing. All of the poems I write are from actual events that have occurred in my life. I am a Police Captain over my departments Criminal Investigatio@n Division. I’ve been in law enforcement for many years and I still love what I do. The downside to my job is having to see the bad, angry, and emotional side of life's tragedies that most people never have to see, thankfully. Not all of my poems are about work, some are about my personal life and the experiences I have faced. If you read my poems I hope you enjoy them and I want to Thank you for taking the time to read them. I hope readers can relate to some of my poems, and the others I hope you never have to relate to at all. more…

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