Analysis of Did You Ever Vanish?



When you were young did you once feel
Invisible and not quite real?
Did words you spoke fall to the ground
Or maybe they just bounced around
The walls and rooms that could not care,
Like people who wish you weren't there!

It's hard to ever like yourself
As parents put you on a shelf
When they don't care in ways that show,
For reasons you will never know!
And so you think it must be true
That no one truly cares for you!


Scheme AABBCC DDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 01000111 11111101 11011101 01011111 110111101 11110101 11011101 11110111 11011101 01111111 11110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 424
Words 91
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 165
Words per stanza (avg) 42

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Being ignored and unappreciated

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Written on February 24, 2024

Submitted by stevec.24118 on February 24, 2024

Modified by stevec.24118 on February 24, 2024

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