Analysis of They Call it a Choice
I hear “Fag! Queer! Disgusting piece of shit!
I hope you die, with the rest of your kind” as I am hit
Not the first time, certainly not the worst
But it still hurts just as much as the first
But the worst of my rage, comes not from their voice
But from the fucking idiots who call this a choice
Whether from the hypocrites who say it God’s test
Or from the hick-spawn, who’ve learned from their nest
The audacity required to say one would choose
To be frowned upon, ridiculed, alone and abused
They call it a choice to be beat to the ground
They call it a choice to feel as if your hell bound
They call it a choice to loathe your deepest desires
They call it a choice to be disgusted by your sires
A choice to feel as an abomination to what is right
A choice to have to search in vain for the light
Can they know how much I tried to refrain?
From thinking thoughts that led to such pain
And from giving in to an undeniable sin
In the form of love, which I can never win
Perhaps not, although that’s still no excuse
To treat fellow man with such abuse
Ignorance can only be a selfish bliss
One that I will help you all dismiss
By telling to all who think it’s a choice
To be hated and to be robbed of your voice
That a choice is something that someone would choose
And no one would choose this, with so much to lose
As there is nowhere else I can possibly turn
I'll run freely to hell, where my soul will burn
By making the only choice I still own
To end the life I would have spent alone
Scheme | AABB CCDD EXFF XXGG HHII JJKK CCEE LLMM |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111010111 11111011111111 1011100101 1111111101 10111111111 1101010011101 10101011111 1101111111 0010001011111 111011001001 11101111101 111011111111 1110111110010 1110111010111 01111100101111 01111101101 1111111101 110111111 011001101001 00111111101 011111101 111011101 10011010101 111111101 1101111101 11100111111 1011101111 01111111111 11111111001 11101111111 1100101111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,468 |
Words | 300 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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