Poems With Analysis
Published: May 2018
Are you looking for poems with a certain technique, or do you want to learn about techniques such as using rhyming, metaphors, and personification? You'll find an Analysis of Form and Technique box that showcases poetic techniques used in these poems and provides links to articles further explaining those techniques. Are you looking for inspiration and a format to write your own poetry? Check out the Try It Yourself articles, complete with PDFs to print and begin using for your own writing.
54 Poems With Analysis Of Form And Technique
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I Tried So Hard
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I tried so hard.
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I tried my best.
I gave you my all,
And now there's nothing left.Featured Shared StoryHe was my first love We started dating while I was in high school. He was at university. We were so much in love, promising each other that we would be together forever. He taught me how to...
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Mask
in Alone Poems
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I was once sad and lonely,
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Having nobody to comfort me,
So I wore a mask that always smiled,
To hide my feelings behind a lie.Featured Shared StoryI know you don't know me, but I want you to know I care about you and what you are going through. I know how bad bullying can be, and I also know how dear a Gran can be. Mine won't be with us...
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What I Love About You
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The sparkle in your eye,
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The warmth of your skin,
Your breath on my neck
That shakes me within.Featured Shared StoryThis is a lovely poem. Choicest words, correct rhymes, tender but intense feelings. The writer not only wrote but also lived his emotions. What a grand way to introduce the beloved. Very...
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I Wish I Weren't Alone
in Alone Poems
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Once when I was little,
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I was happy and carefree.
I used to run around laughing
Until it was time for tea.Featured Shared StoryI was bullied at school because I was an ugly kid. Mum and Dad loved me for what I was. I had a failed marriage due to domestic violence and verbal abuse at me. I was locked up for defending...
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The Meaning Of Love
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To love is to share life together,
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to build special plans just for two,
to work side by side,
and then smile with pride,Featured Shared StoryLove is the thing that keeps you up all night because you'd rather talk to that person than sleep. Love can be the best feeling in the world and also the worst. It can bring you higher than...
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Let Me
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Let me take care of your broken heart
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and show you how to fly.
Let me hold you gently by the hand
and kiss your tears goodbye.Featured Shared StoryLove is the true inspirational force. It motivates, encourages and strengthens the resolve to achieve the achievable. True love neither expects nor demands anything in lieu. It only believes...
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Phenomenal Woman
Famous Poem
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
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I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.Featured Shared StoryPhenomenal Woman By Maya Angelou this poem is a Classic that deals with every women in the world. This poem shows that beauty is compare by what society thinks a woman should looked like,...
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My Melody
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Amazing and beautiful,
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not a flower or a tree.
Much prettier than that,
and only I can see.Featured Shared StoryBeautiful poem. I love it. One of my favorite poems from Familyfriendspoems.com .
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Truth Untold
in Alone Poems
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My pain and misery fall from the sky
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So hard I try to ignore it, but it still gets by.
Surrounded with memories of what could have been,
The hatred screams under my skin.Featured Shared StoryI could relate perfectly to every line and the heart of the author. What astonished me is the fact that when you pour your heart into a poem, you have still not let it out. The circumstances...
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Inside Out
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Outside lives a girl with a smile that will brighten up the room,
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yet inside hides a girl with a frown full of despair.
Outside lives a girl with eyes of joy that bring you to ease,Featured Shared StoryWow, just wow. That's me exactly. I go through my church doors with a smile always on my face, so much so that the youth group nicknamed me Smiley McGee, and I'm so nice to others. I guess...
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Until Forever Dies
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This is us,
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Never alone.
We have each other.
Whether in the same roomFeatured Shared StoryThat was a super fantastic poem and completely heart touching. Me and my boyfriend will be celebrating two years of our relationship next month and this poem is just so beautiful and perfect...
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The Importance Of A Sister
in Sister Poems
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A sister is someone who loves you from the heart.
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No matter how much you argue, you cannot be drawn apart.
She is a joy that cannot be taken away.
Once she enters your life, she is there to stay.Featured Shared StoryI was 9 when I first found out I have a sister. I remember I would dream of knowing her and that someday we would met. I used to watch other children play with their sisters and think to...
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I'm Tired
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I'm tired.
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Tired of the constancy,
the constancy of judgment.
Tired of hiding,Featured Shared StoryI lived in an abusive household for the first nine years of my life. Suffering sexual assault, beatings, starvation, all at the hands of the people who were supposed to protect me. When I was...
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I Wish He Knew
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I wish he could know
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What I'm too scared to show.
I wish he could see
Just how much he means to me.Featured Shared StoryDear Ana, My heart goes out to you. I'm considering myself a very romantic person, and with my life's (quite substantial) experience I can safely tell you this: based on what you wrote...
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How Can I Forget?
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That very first day that we met,
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It's a feeling I'll never forget.
All the experiences that we've shared,
I knew right away that you were rare.Featured Shared StoryI was with a guy for 3 years. We never cheated on each other. He was the one for me, or so I thought. As time went by, he started to lie to me. His lies got bigger each time. Every time I...
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The Choice Is Mine
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Life may not let me choose my lot,
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But whether I'd be happy or not...
That is my choice.
Featured Shared StoryI really loved this poem. It is simple but lovely, the sort of thing you could hand to anyone having troubles with life. The choice is theirs to let things worry them and spoil their lives or...
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But You Didn't
Famous Poem
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Remember the time you lent me your car and I dented it?
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I thought you'd kill me...
But you didn't.
Featured Shared StoryThis poem truly moved me. I am waiting for my husband to come home from hospital. He has been there for four weeks now and is still in intensive care. He was admitted with sepsis, and so much...
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Life Without You
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Me without you
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is like a leafless fall,
a snowless winter,
and a flowerless spring.Featured Shared StoryI'm madly in love with my girl, but suddenly things changed. She cut the communication, so I can't reach her. I don't know if she will be back. I'm feeling choked and lonely. Life without her...
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Never Stop Being You
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Never stop caring about the little things in life.
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Never stop dreaming, and don't give into strife.
Never stop wondering are we on our own.
Never stop thinking has your spirituality grown.Featured Shared StoryWell, it's true. No matter how tough life has been and may seem, the best thing to do is to keep moving forward, even when it hurts with the assurance that you are not alone. God is there,...
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A Broken Family Tree
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I am one of many
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Small branches of a broken tree,
Always looking to the ones above
For guidance, strength and security.Featured Shared StoryI echo all the stories that have gone before mine. It's amazing, it's moving, it's a poem written with so much feeling and depth. Family should be everything - supportive, comforting,...
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