Analysis of Gaslight



You must have a heart made of steel
To deny to me what I feel
That you don't understand what was the big deal
Telling me to explain and relive the painful Ordeal
Just for you to tell me I don't know what is real
I know what I went through sounds so Surreal
Even while living it, it felt so Unreal
Forgetting the truth would have been ideal
I was too ashamed to want to squeal
But just like the bruises, the truth was hard to conceal
Your so disrespectful to pretend it's a shocking reveal
Stop trying to make up a believable appeal
Your denial of the truth is rather puerile
Accept what you did and deal
Please stop this hamster wheel
I know you know what is real
So show me some respect for how I feel
And allow me the chance to heal


Scheme AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Poetic Form Monorhyme
Metre 11101111 10111111 1110111011 10110100101001 111111111111 1111111101 10110111101 0100111101 111011111 1110100111101 11010101101001 1101110010001 101010111001 0111101 111101 1111111 1111011111 00110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 738
Words 150
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 583
Words per stanza (avg) 147

About this poem

I wrote this after an argument with my bf

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Written on April 10, 2023

Submitted by Jordaneg5614 on April 10, 2023

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