Analysis of The One Who Perseveres



There is a girl of about sixteen years,
In theatre she is, beating her stage fears.
If she is truthful, some days of her life,
She fights against herself in quite a strife.
She has never-ending, heavy issues,
In which past times her coping she’d misused.
For in her room, isolation was key.
Time spent reading, writing was best to be.
An author already, some might have said,
She writes so much, way past the time for bed.
She is so amazing, beautiful too,
But this poor girl does not realize it’s true.
Her mind can be dark, her head can be wrong,
And no one hears the cry of her sad song.
Her empathy is such a gift from God,
Where she understands them with a small nod.
A quiet girl, unique in her own way.
For strength and courage every night she’d pray.
This girl has told all her survivor’s tale,
So maybe the struggling will not fail.


Scheme AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101101011 01001110011 1111011101 1101010101 1110101010 0111010101 100101011 1110101111 1100101111 1111110111 1110101001 1111111011 0111101111 0111011011 0100110111 110111011 0101010011 11010100111 1111100101 1100100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 849
Words 179
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 647
Words per stanza (avg) 160

About this poem

I wrote this 2 years ago for a school assignment. It's in Iambic Pentameter, but that's not an option for a type of poetic form.

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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on January 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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