Analysis of A poem is but a piece of your soul



I do not cry.
I do not whine.
I do not fight with my mind.
I do not scream.
Nor do I shout.

I have a different way of letting my emotions out.

I write.
I write poems.
poems that take turns.
Turns so dark people will forget from where they start.

I do not cry.
But when I write I sob.

I do not whine
But when I write I dream.
I dream of a world that could have
been.

When I write, I fight, I fight with the thought that should be expressed.

I do not scream, I speak. I speak my poems, proud and strong, I do not scream my poems because that would be wrong.

I write a poem like it's my child.
I nurture my poems the way I wish I was nurtured.

I feed my poems not food, but emotions.
Emotions, so strong I would crumble with no outlet.

A poem is but a piece of your soul.
I have many pieces, some I share with the world and some I hide.

My poems are my work. They tell a story, some so sad they would make you cry, some so happy they sound like a lie.

My poems are my story they tell the past but my poems do not define me because the further is all that lasts


Scheme ABxcd d xxxx Ax Bcxx x x xx xx xx a x
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1111 1111111 1111 1111 110100111010101 11 1110 10111 111101011111 1111 111111 1111 111111 11101111 1 111111110111101 111111111101011111110011111 110101111 11011001111110 11110111010 010111110111 0101101111 1110101111010111 1101111101011111111111011101 11011101101111011011010101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,072
Words 261
Sentences 26
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 5, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 19

About this poem

I often write poems because I’m in pain or because I need an outlet for my emotions. When I write poems, I often will pour all my feelings into my paper. I can’t even count how many times I’ve finished a poem and it has been covered my own tears. I wrote this poem after my psychiatrist inspired me, by telling me that my poems where powerful and filled with emotion

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Written on April 05, 2023

Submitted by natew.02444 on December 05, 2023

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Nathaniel wright

I write poems too get over trauma. I don’t like long walks on the beach, or flowers and chocolate. I like books and writing. more…

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