Analysis of Where were you?
Where were you?
Where were you?
When they cut the cord,
in the local hospital ward
where were you on the day ,
when they took mummy away
Where were you ?
When I moved from home to home poor child, all alone
where were you on the mornings, when the grey skies were yawning, and my feet pounding
as I ran from the scoldings
Where were you ?
when I screamed?
when every time
it was not what it seemed
Where were you
when I cried?
when every time
I LIED
Where were you?
on the day
they threw the keys away
as I wiped my tears,
no more fears
FINALLY
someone hears
Where were you, Dad? Where were you?
Scheme | A Abbcc Axxd AeFe AgFg Accddxda |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 101 11101 0010101 101101 1111001 101 111111111101 1011010101101001110 111101 101 111 11001 111111 101 111 11001 11 101 101 110101 11111 111 100 11 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
The poem is about a girl talking to her dad , asking him why he was never in her life . Her mother died when she was very young and she was traveling from foster home to foster home. She finally found her life long family but they were verbally , physically and sexually abusive which in the end comes to stop when they get locked away in prison.
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Written on February 09, 2022
Submitted by oppermankeesha on February 18, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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