Analysis of Helpless thoughts
I can’t control you
Still I love you
Do you know
The pain I go through
You smoke the poison
Oh so willing
Over time it’s creeping, killing
My heart is breaking, aching, chilling
What is life without you near
In sullen secret I shed a tear
You do not eat the foods of health
Your dreams are dusting on the shelf
What can I do
My one true love
You have your own free will
Still I love you
Still I want you
But these thoughts
Do haunt and chill
| Scheme | aAxa xbbb xxxx axc Aaxc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 1111 111 01111 11010 1110 10111010 111101010 1110111 010101101 11110111 11110101 1111 1111 111111 1111 1111 111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 455 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem one morning when I was feeling particularly sad that my boyfriend smokes cigarettes and does not eat healthily. It is one of my first poems ever!
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Written on September 12, 2022
Submitted by cassy.hickman14 on September 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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