Analysis of Menopause
My husband doesn't love me.
My youngest one’s a brat.
No matter how I exercise,
my once thin thighs stay fat.
My job is wearing on me
My boss, -- he is a creep.
But mostly I’m just sick and tired
Of sweatin’ in my sleep.
The house is always dirty.
The dishes are never done.
It seems like I was thirty
Last time I had some fun.
And there’s not much in my future
That seems to catch my eye.
I think I’ll just start counting days---
Long days until I die.
Ya see I’m going through this change in life
And it isn’t very pleasant.
So I went to talk to my best friend---
And she just screamed at me--- "WHO ISN’T!”
Scheme | ABXB ACXC ADAD XEXE XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 110101 1101110 111111 1111011 111101 110111010 11011 011110 0101101 1111110 111111 01110110 111111 11111101 110111 1111011101 0111010 111111111 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This poem was inspired by my little darling wife. We were discussing my brother--- who's wife was all out of sorts. I told my wife that he was blaming all her troubles on going through menopause. And that sweet little darling of mine turned to me and said--- "And just who the fuck isn't" Now that, is pure inspiration.
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Written on June 24, 2004
Submitted by fxkortuem.111 on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 17, 2023
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