Analysis of Make It Out Alive



Sometimes when you water the flowers you think of suicide.

“Would they still wanna grow if they knew they could die?”

You go to the part of your soul where the dark paces.
Just a skid of a kid in between the pleasant and the long faces.

You just give ‘em a smile.
For a while,
Be a child again-
Relish and let yourself feel the feelings you were lucky to be given.

But just so you know,
Nobody knows.
If it feels easy life will make you queasy
Spit up your Mickie D’s and question your reasons; but just let it go.

Better to keep your head up.
Keep your pride.
Use your mind and let love inside.
It’s not you, it’s where you had to reside.

If you can give yourself some time,
You can make it out alive.


Scheme A X XX BBXX CXXC XAAA XX
Poetic Form
Metre 01111001011110 111101111111 1110111110110 10110100101000110 111101 101 10101 100101101010101110 11111 11 11110111110 11110101011011111 1011111 111 11101101 1111111101 11110111 1111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 723
Words 162
Sentences 13
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

This is a poem about growing up in a small town feeling different or queer or gay or feeling judged by whatever your surroundings has against you and having those dark thoughts but rising above it to know you will ultimately make it out and realizing everything is temporary if you allow it to be. It’s about not letting the intrusive thoughts that others press on you take over. Every being is different and every being is beautiful.

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Written on June 27, 2023

Submitted by Alecdockerymusic on June 27, 2023

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I am a songwriter mainly and started writing this as a song and it just became way to much and I just needed to get it out there. I hope to write a song version of it soon. more…

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