Analysis of Balm in Gilead
Marked for pain
Circumstances of life each take their turn
Arrow after arrow I am pierced
There is a road sign to my soul warning Wounds ahead
I lap on hard pills to swallow
My hearts’ tongue has lost its sweet bud
When ice cream melts on it
It bitterly hates the cold
I am conversant with sorrow
She is quite the talker
Night after night I have filled my ears with her stories
Some of which are actually classics told over generations to lovely women like me
Pity they don't ever sound too important when repeated to the police or the mother or the neighbour
Fairytales they say..
A woman must give..
a man deserves..
And all I have is the Balm in Gilead
| Scheme | XXXX AXXX ABXXBX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 100111111 101010111 1101111110101 11111110 11111111 111111 1100101 11010110 111010 1101111111010 1111100101100101101011 10111011010101010011010101 1011 01011 0101 0111101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 662 |
| Words | 133 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
Every person goes through difficult times that inflicts pain. It may feel as though the pain will never end as circumstance after circumstance, the pain seems to build up. As if that ain't enough, women are victimized, abused, used and left for dead simply for being the weaker gender. It has become a part of human culture and the please fall into deaf ears. Eventually their only help is in God (and in the christian religion one referred to the Balm in Gilead).
Written on February 02, 2022
Submitted by perpetuatyma on February 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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