Analysis of I Had to Be Told
I had to be told
when I was young
to leave a healing wound alone
stop picking at it
It would never heal
they said
if I kept undoing the progress
if I didn’t let the healthy skin come in
It’ll leave a scar
they said
it’ll be permanent
it will never go away
Like a little kid
I didn’t listen
and I kept picking
until there was nothing left
Until there were only scars
| Scheme | xxxx xAxx xAxx xxxx x |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1111 11010101 11011 11101 11 11101001 1111010110 1101 11 11100 1110101 10101 1110 01110 0111101 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 378 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I think scars are very special. Some people view them as imperfections, but they're important, a reminder of what you endured and how you survived.
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