Analysis of Generational Anger
I was raised by angry people,
People whose love is often harsh and whose hate is even harsher,
People who shout and scream and cry with such deep-rooted anger,
It's difficult to remember who planted it in the first place,
That blaze of fury that licks away at the life around them,
Including themselves,
Raging on and on and on until there is nothing but ash,
And the quiet flames of a dying fire,
I was raised by angry people,
But I was also born angry,
Forced out of the comfort and safety of my mother's womb,
Forced to take the cruel world head on,
To grow up not quite understood but not quite indecipherable,
Taught to take that born-with anger and learn to control it,
But to not be so passive,
Because we are angry people,
And angry is a language well-spoken in our family,
People whose love is often harsh and whose hate is even harsher,
People who cannot help but shout and scream and cry with anger,
That we are not sure when was embedded into us as human beings,
I was born angry,
And was raised by angry people,
But so was my father,
And my mother,
And so were theirs,
Like a hereditary disease that carries out the will of God,
Like divine punishment,
And I have no choice but to carry on such a tradition,
Or let it die out with me,
Because being angry is exhausting,
And life full of nothing but anger is no life at all.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010 1011110101111010 101101011111010 1100101011010011 111101101101011 01001 101010101111011 00101101010 11111010 11110110 11101001011101 111010111 11111011111 11111110011011 1111110 01111010 0101010110010100 1011110101111010 101101110101110 111111101001111010 11110 01111010 111110 0110 0101 1001000111010111 101100 011111110110010 1111111 0110101010 01111011011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,339 |
Words | 287 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 12, 11 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 349 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
About this poem
This poem is something I wrote on a whim. It doesn't have much to do with me, more so with a character I created for a book I'm writing, but it's something I'm particularly proud of.
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