Analysis of It's not about you
Charlotte Machuca 1993
I'm slowly dying, the constant battles
It's enough to make anyone's head rattle,
Everyone expects so much from me,
I don't know how to make them see,
The spiral I'm drifting down,
My head is beginning to pound.
This story is too much
I couldn't even make it up
The cycle of abuse continues,
And no one is looking to choose
The ones who should matter the most
Are the ones paying the unbearable cost.
You're so concerned with yourself
You don't see them needing help,
You are so wrapped up in pride,
You don't hear them cry,
I want to love them I want to help
But every time it's like getting hit with the belt,
Your quick to assume
Never listening to the truth
You choose to ignore and move along
Never admitting you may be wrong.
Scheme | ABCCDEFGHHIJKLMNLOPQRR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001010 1011110110 10011111 11111111 0101101 11101011 110111 11010111 010101010 01111011 01111001 10110001001 1101101 1111101 1111101 11111 111111111 1100111101101 11101 10100101 111010101 100101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 738 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 569 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
About this poem
After dealing with drama in my family regarding divorce and custody I wrote this to share that it's not about anyone else just the kids.
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Written on November 07, 2022
Submitted by Chucachuoo on November 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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