Analysis of Acid Reflux
every night it’s the same ordeal
it takes her hours of tossing and turning
to finally reach that deep, sweet sleep
then right around midnight
as by some spell or curse
she begins to awake
every hour on the hour
choking on the acid that
has climbed up her throat
she cries and waddles
as fast as she can
to the toilet and spits
out the fiery fluid
her throat burns like the
injustice of the situation
she chugs a glass, then a second
of bathroom tap water
but she cannot kill the burn and
the taste of bile remains as fresh
as her frustration towards God
and this unborn baby
and as foul as her anger for the
(absent) boy who put her here
Scheme | XXX XAXB XXAXXX CXDBDXXX CX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110101 11010110010 110011111 11011 111111 101101 100101010 1010101 11101 1101 11111 101001 1010010 01110 01010010 11011010 11110 11101010 01110111 10010011 011110 011101010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 6, 8, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I wrote the first rough draft of this poem years ago, and just recently found it and edited it into this final form. It is about the physical and emotional pains a young woman experiences at night as she carries the weight of a difficult pregnancy by herself.
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