Analysis of lemon demon on skis



you're yellow sour sweet. sunlight on
snow piled steep blinds my eyes slightly
that one time i went skiing when i was fourteen
now i need glasses i don't wear.
i didn't like the yellow goggles. i didn't wear them  
because i'd look stupid.
so no yellow goggles.
i can't ski but i'd be dead before i ask for help
so my legs are bruised yellow,
yellow goggles pushed up (do i look stupid?) and
my eyes are red.
now i have glasses i don't use
because i'd look stupid,
sour lemon demon tells me so.


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Metre 11010111 11111110 111111011111 11110111 11010101011011 011110 111010 1111111011111 1111110 101011111100 1111 11110111 011110 101010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 497
Words 106
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 376
Words per stanza (avg) 96

About this poem

i was sad in my room dec. 2021 thinking about the stifling self sabotage and harming that comes with social anxiety, and that one time and went skiing and damaged my eye sight because i was so scared of looking dumb wearing the goggles and i didnt know how to ski lmao, lemon demon is that sour sick feeling of anxiety that still kind of feels like its protecting me

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Submitted on December 21, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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