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'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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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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Tell Me It's Okay
in Loss Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
Tell me it's okay
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To just want to cry.
Tell me it's okay
To never say goodbye.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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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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Mask
in Alone Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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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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Inside Out
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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Last Chance
in Father Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
My heart aches, Dad,
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For the things you won't do.
My soul breaks, Dad,
For all that we've been through.Featured Shared StoryMy dad is a substance abuser. He is abusive physically, emotionally and mentally in every possible way imagine. Since I could remember he has degraded my mum, my brothers and me. My mum...
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Let Me
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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Truth Untold
in Alone Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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I Am Not A Victim Of Breast Cancer
Analysis of Form and Technique
I am not a victim of breast cancer. I am experiencing breast cancer.
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I am not dying. I am living.
I am not curing. I am healing and restoring.
I am not fearing. I am loving and trusting.Featured Shared StoryI am a two time cancer survivor. I had a wonderful doctor. The first time I had a lumpectomy and radiation. The second time was five years later and I had a mastectomy with radiation and...
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But You Didn't
Famous Poem
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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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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If Only I Knew
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If only I knew that our time would be so brief,
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Spoiled you rotten I would have done.
If only I knew that would be our last phone call,Featured Shared StoryMay 2, 2016 I lost my little sister who was only 45. Every day brings the challenge to go forward.
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Tapestry
Analysis of Form and Technique
If I could take a brush and paint the mountains and the moors,
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I would splash the hillsides yellow and cover them in gorse.
I'd take the finest needle and the darkest thread of green
And sew a line of bracken along the landscape. In-betweenFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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A Broken Family Tree
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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The Importance Of A Sister
in Sister Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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Forever Remember
Analysis of Form and Technique
I remember
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Planes flying low
Smoke from the towers
Cries from the injuredFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Never Stop Being You
Analysis of Form and Technique
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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The One
Analysis of Form and Technique
The one who brought me down to earth
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And held me every day.
The one who gracefully gave me birth
And said, I love you in every way.Featured Shared StoryVery good usage of words. Rhyming pattern is good and the structure rocks. One of the best I've read so far. Keep on writing more!
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