Analysis of Hurt



Never made me mad,
saved the tears for another day.
Asked how I felt,
if I was okay.
“Hurt”,
all I could manage to say.


Scheme ABCBDB
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 10110101 1111 1111 1 1111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 123
Words 30
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

My boyfriend, the first love of my life, came to me one day to tell me he had cheated on me. I wrote this poem about that.

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Written on 2022

Submitted by audreyhempburned on February 20, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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