Analysis of The man my mother married
madison graham 2004 (United States)
He hit her so she hit back
Her kids were watching him turn her black.
The color of her bruises I wanted to fight
The next day I took flight.
I punched his face
To put him in his place.
The man my mother married
Needs to be buried.
We found a way
For us to stay,
Looks can kill
Better than a pill.
He won't hurt another,
Because of me and my mother
The kids are safe and sound
Because the man my mother married is in the ground
We had our fun
Now we are on the run
As long as we try
We will run till we die
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111 010101101 010101011011 011111 1111 111011 0111010 11110 1101 1111 111 10101 111010 01110110 011101 0101110101001 11101 111101 11111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on August 14, 2019
Submitted by maddyhart2022 on March 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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