Analysis of I Refuse



I refuse to go down to the pit.
I refuse to let my mind be depress.
I refuse to give my talents and gifts rest.
I refuse not to be the best.
I refuse to feel defeated again.
I refuse to give in.

I refuse to be sick.
I refuse to give my enemies authority over me.
I refuse to let my soul be wounded.
I refuse to just lie down and die.
I refuse to quit.

I refuse to get angry and have fits.
I refuse to be scared to shine.
I refuse to give the enemy my mind.
I refuse to be use for evil.
I refuse to not see and hear with God spiritual eyes and ears.

I refuse to be but in a category, for I am unique.
I refuse to feel bad because you don’t know who I am.
Go to God for the answers to define me;
because, God created me different,
and only He can describe to you, who I am.
Because I refuse all of this!


Scheme AXBBXX XCXXA XXXXX XDCXDX
Poetic Form
Metre 101111101 1011111101 10111110011 10111101 1011101001 101110 101111 1011111000100101 1011111110 101111101 10111 1011110011 10111111 10111010011 101111110 10111101111000101 1011110010011101 10111101111111 11110101011 0110101100 010110111111 01101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 782
Words 174
Sentences 20
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 5, 6
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 151
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Angela Lorine Smith

Born in Atlanta, Georgia to the parents of Leo and Paulette Sheats on February 9, 1965, the third child in a family of five. She started to write poetry at the age of 11. Angela love reading, writing and computers, from programming computers, troubleshooting them, writing blogs, website etc. She is a daughter, mother, wife and grandmother. more…

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