Analysis of Growing Pains
Cat Evans 1970 (Minnesota)
I've been trying for so long
just to make you see;
that a lot of changes
have happened to me.
You hurt me deeply
when you were living inside.
Whenever you came
I only wanted to hide.
You seem to be trying
I can hear you cry.
I really want to help you
I'm not sure why.
I hope as we grow older
we will see the light.
Maybe we can learn
how to live and not fight.
| Scheme | ABCBBDEDFGHGIJKJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 11111 101110 11011 11110 1101001 01011 1101011 111110 11111 1101111 1111 1111110 11101 10111 111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 366 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 274 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
About this poem
I wrote this in my late teens for my alcoholic absentee mother.
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