Analysis of Answer to Me
Lilah Ainsworth 2007 (Kent)
This is a bit of a personal poem - you'll see it when you read it. As always, criticism welcome.
Answer to me:
Society will look at my sister and see
A loud kid, a wild kid, an anomaly
She’s different so she’s wrong, cause she doesn't
Understand or speak
Havoc is all she can ever wreak
No-one knows the love that I, for one, can see
Plain on her face, so get off her case
‘Cause she’s just like you and me
Just like you and me,
But that’s not what they’ll see
She screams and shouts and sometimes she screeches
She has been known to throw sand at beaches
Is she less deserving of kindness?
No, she is not, but that's what some
Will think of her, and if they do
They’ll have me to answer to
They’ll answer to me, and I’ll make them see.
She goes to a different school
She’ll live by different rules
Doesn’t make her any less cool
If you don’t think so then you’re the fool
So, I guess,
It’s not your fault if you’re not truly educated
But being ignorant is well overrated
In my head, I’ve already calculated
Wheremost your societal ignorance is located
I would shut up but now you have me aggravated
Your ableist beliefs have had me infuriated
This subject isn’t really that complicated
Kind, moral values you’ve already desecrated
‘Cause everyone should be treated the same, alright?
A poem to explain this, I should not have to write.
But write it I will, and now hopefully you’ll see
You don’t want to have to answer to me.
So next time don't stare, don't look, and don't whisper;
'Cause, you'll answer to me;
And I'm her big sister
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101001011111111110010 1011 010011111001 01101110100 11001111110 0111 101111101 11101111111 110111101 1111101 11101 111111 1101001110 1111111110 111010110 11111111 11100111 1111101 1101101111 11101001 1111001 1101011 111111101 111 111111110100 11010011010 0111010100 110100100110 111111111100 11011110100 1011101100 1101010100010 1101110011 0101011111111 111110110011 1111111011 11111110110 111011 010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,542 |
Words | 291 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 8, 8, 1, 4, 13, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on March 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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