Analysis of As If I Knew What I Should Do
Is It On Me
To Wage a War
I Was Raised To Ignore
To Lift a Sword
Forged Before I Was Born
To Heal a Scar
Ancient Yet Still Bleeding
To Love a World
That's So Unwelcoming
To Live My Life
As If I Knew
What I Should Do
It Is On Me
| Scheme | ABBCDEFGFHIIA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1101 111101 1101 101111 1101 101110 1101 111 1111 1111 1111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
About this poem
Summer 2020 was a difficult time. The terrible disease of racism infecting the United States hit close to home when my wife's sister married a white nationalist. Suddenly I - a struggling writer/developer with ADHD and GAD - felt a great responsibility to address this problem. Not just in my personal life, but for the entire country. I fixated a lot that summer about how I could single-handedly solve a centuries old systemic issue that I grew up believing was already fixed. I tried many times since then to put those thoughts and fears into a poem. Early this morning was the first time I felt happy with how they came together. more »
Written on February 10, 2023
Submitted by jonsnotes on February 10, 2023
Modified on April 04, 2023
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