Analysis of You have been here before
You have been here before
Fighting off tears that threaten to roll down your cheek,
And onto the floor.
Swallowing down the impending thought that
When you do,
You'll silently be admitting defeat.
You have been here before
Thinking, "they don't understand me and never will".
That thought playing on a loop in your brain.
As expected, you feel the surge of anger boiling inside of you
Begging you to scream the thoughts you are feeling
And have felt
And will feel But as expected, you can’t.
You have been here before
The tortuous sound of sobbing
That - although breaks you to your very core - is coming from your own mouth.
The blurry vision of eyes so tired of expelling ever flowing tears
That they grow red and weak.
And worst of all,
The overwhelming self-hatred you feel
For allowing yourself to cry in the first place
For allowing yourself to think that you could stop
And for allowing yourself to eventually forget this experience and
Make new, more painful ones.
You will always be here
Because you cannot change how you are.
You cannot flip off your emotions like a switch, Even though you really really want too.
You were born emotional.
And might spend this life
Trying to accept that
Hoping - no praying - others do too.
Because if they don't,
Then this is going to be a
Hard, excruciating, seemingly endless road.
Scheme | Abacdx Axxdexx Aexxbxxxxxx xxdxxcdxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 101111011111 01001 1001001011 111 1100101001 111101 10110110101 1110101011 10101101110100111 10111011110 011 0111101011 111101 01001110 1111111011101111 0101011110101010101 111101 0111 001011011 101001110011 101001111111 010100110100001101000 111101 11111 011101111 1101110101011011101011 1010100 01111 101011 101101011 01111 11110110 10100100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,349 |
Words | 269 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 11, 10 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
About this poem
It is a free verse poem that is focusing on the repeation of mistakes and the many emotions and thoughts that follow, from the perspective of a highly emotional person (me) dealing with the aftermath of a situation that caused feelings of great sadness and desire.
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Written on March 01, 2022
Submitted by tarifa_a on February 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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