Help me ASAP please! This is a poem for my english class! can you help me fix it and make it somewhat better?
she was again reminded of her broken past
her framed memories from so long ago
If only she knew that time would go so fast
The edges of the glass cut into her skin
His family she had made into her own kin
Her glass cleaned up, her frame no more
Heart sick she throw it in the bin
Slowly bandaging the wound her glass had made
Knowing that time cannot heal what has become jade
Trying to hold on to all she knew
Re-framing their picture so her memories would not fade.
Thank you! I wrote this for my Lit. class…But I wrote only one of the three I needed to write… So please fix anything you can…
The last word must rhyme…Like AABA, BBCD, CCDC….
So my biggest question was is my “Jade” in the right spot? You know like jaded? Broken down? Is that right?
HELP ME PLEASE!
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This is your most awkward, problematic stanza:
” Slowly bandaging the wound her glass had made
Knowing that time cannot heal what has become jade
Trying to hold on to all she knew
Re-framing their picture so her memories would not fade.”
Let’s work on that. “Jade” seems forced here. To say something has become jade is not the same, or close, as saying experience has jaded someone. It’s shaky usage, which you cannot afford in the pared, pinpoint language of a poem. “Bandaging” is too long a word and makes the line awkward for being a few syllables too long. I changed it to the simpler “wrap”. “Fade” is a good, evocative word, but I moved it up to another spot in your poem, and ended with another “ade”-rhyming word instead. There are still traces of awkwardness in the last stanza, but I think it’s better overall, reads more smoothly, and tortures the language marginally less, and makes more sense.
“She wraps the wound the glass has made
And sees that time cannot heal, nor can it fade
The frame where she held the things she knew,
The shattered image where her memories are laid.”
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