Analysis of The Violent Storm
It is November 12, 2022.
Starting work is like
Trying to weather a building storm
Of snide comments
And male dominance.
I walk in
Through those double doors
And it is like entering the part of the storm
Where the winds are strongest
And least forgiving.
I do my work,
Mind my own business,
But it is never enough.
There is always something that I have to fix
But never something that HE has to fix.
It is hard to believe in a world where
All people should be created equal.
That is like
Trying to force sunshine
Through the clouds of a violent storm.
I feel uprooted from my past life.
Like the fantasies
Have been cut apart
By a knife
That revealed the cruel truths
Beneath.
It is as if
We never met,
We never laughed,
We never wept.
It is as if
Once you are grown
The sunshine falters
And gives way to snow.
But not the snow that
Glistens in the winter.
No,
This is a snowstorm,
Determined to cover you,
Suffocate you,
Suppress you
with
Male dominance.
I do not know how to survive in a world
Like this.
I do not know how to survive in a world that will always be
His.
Signing off,
Rebecca M. Martini
Scheme | abcxd xxcxx xxxee xxbxc fxxfxx Gxxx Gxxh xa hciiixd xxjx xj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10111 101100101 1110 01100 110 11101 011110001101 101110 01010 1111 11110 1111001 1111011111 1101011111 1111010011 1101101010 111 10111 101101001 110101111 10100 11101 101 1010101 01 1111 1101 1101 1101 1111 1111 0110 01111 11011 10010 1 1101 0101101 101 011 1 1100 11111101001 11 111111010011111 1 101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,134 |
Words | 257 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 4, 4, 2, 7, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This poem is a part of a five-piece poetry collection and Women's Rights. All five poems are written from the perspective of made-up female characters experiencing problems with their rights. All five poems are written as entries in a diary each of these five women keep. This specific poem is about the struggles of a woman, Rebecca M. Martini, at work where she is overwhelmed by male dominance.
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