Analysis of I want to be your poet.
Faylee Goren 2008 (Toronto)
I want to be your poet,
I want to welcome you into this world
With words of hope and good luck.
I want to to teach you how to
Read,
Write,
Love.
I want to welcome you into your first day of high school,
I want you to sleep in the soft blanket of my words
When those mean girls don’t get what they deserve.
I want to be your poet
I want to guide you through your first love,
Your first dance when you’re too scared to look in his eyes.
I’ll give you the words
When you’re tongue -tied.
I want to teach you how to fight,
I want to teach you how to surrender
I want to be your poet
I want to teach you to be steady,
When your hands shake so violently.
I want to show you that the violence
And the night
Can be followed by a day so bright
You can’t believe it’s yours to keep.
I want to be your poet
I want to open your eyes when you’re 16
And want to die
To the beauty of life.
I want to comfort you when you’re 96 and scared
To close your eyes for the last time.
I want you to see yourself reflected in my words,
Because I see me in you.
From birth to death,
You’re my muse
,Love.
I want to be your poet
I want to be your poet.
Scheme | AxxbxcDxex A dxexcf A ggxccx A fxxxx ebxxD A A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 1111010111 1111011 11111111 1 1 1 11110101111111 1111100110111 1111111101 1111110 111111111 111111111011 11101 1111 11111111 1111111010 1111110 111111110 111111000 1111110100 001 111010111 11011111 1111110 111101111 0111 101011 1111011101 11111011 1111101010011 0111101 1111 111 1 1111110 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,158 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 1, 6, 1, 6, 1, 5, 5, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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