Analysis of To my demon

Jazmin Smith 2005 (Charlotte North Carolina)



To my demon,
you have had a hold of me for years.
You made me not be able to move.
You made me lose some of the people I thought were my friends.
Almost every teen has one of you.
 You have a strong grip
 you squeeze and squeeze
 and it hurts people.
For some,
you never let go.
 For many people, you squeeze until they just give up, and it goes black.
You have made me cry myself to sleep.
 You made me scare my family
Not only that, but you made me feel alone.
 I wanted to give up.
You follow us everywhere and can show yourself at any time
 Occasionally, you are a coward and you hide.
 But it's time for you to stop being a coward and come out of hiding
 You did this and you need to face it.
 Because you are not going to win
 my army and I am ready to fight you.
 We know your name, and we are ready to fight back.
Today is the last day I let you win.
Goodbye
depression!


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1110 111011111 111111011 11111101011011 110011111 11011 1101 01110 11 11011 11010110111110111 11111111 11111100 11011111101 110111 110110011011101 0100011010011 111111110010011110 111011111 011111011 11001110111 111101110111 0110111111 1 010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 889
Words 200
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 661
Words per stanza (avg) 182

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This is about me overcoming depression

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Submitted by jazminsmith550 on March 25, 2024

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Jazmin Smith

Hi I'm Jazmin Smith, I'm an 18 year old high school senior, with a passion for writing and poetry, I wrote this poem for my school poetry slam competition and fell in love with it and decided to submit it to other places. more…

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