Trying to clear up the parts of the poem that I did not understand yesterday, I decided to look up a few words in the Oxford English Dictionary. The first word I looked up was "Speckled" which appears in line ten. Before looking it up, I assumed the word meant spotted. While filtering through the many definitions in OED, I found one that describes the word as meaning consistent with something. I'm not sure why, but that seems to be the most appropriate definition in this context.
I also looked up "rage" as it appears in line ten. Most definitions point to some kind of anger or violence. But one points to sexual desire. REVELATION! I now see the reference to sex and understand that the speaker was not being kept in the house, rather he was kept outside of the house so his parents could have sex. Yes I said it SEX.
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