Analysis of Selfish



Who are you ?
Do you want to hear my secret.
I have many friends
Making friends is not hard
I go to parties and have fun
Hooking up with a guy is not a hard thing to do when you look like me
Getting someone to like you is not hard when you look like me
I am fun and talkative and pretty and cool and popular
I have a nice style
I get compliments plenty
I am never home
Always out

Yet…
I feel this way
I feel ugly
My face is unsymmetrical
I’m pretty average looking,
Now that I think about it
I talk too much
Nobody is interested in me for too long
Sex.
My body.
Is all they want
I procrastinate
I never have interests for too long
I hurt people’s feelings
Because
Of
My
Own
Unconscious
Selfishness
Selfish.
Something I am
I take these pills knowing people care and love me
But I don’t care,
When I look into this pile of white pills I only think
Swallow.
As many as you can
Now hurry,
Someone can’t walk in or else they’ll help you
But you don’t want that you want to die
Because
You
Are
Selfish.


Scheme axxxxbbxcbxx xxbcxxxdxbxxdxExfxggHxbxxxxbafEaxH
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11111110 11101 101111 11110011 101101110111111111 10111111111111 1110100010010100 11011 1110010 11101 11 1 1111 1110 1111 11010010 1111011 1111 1110001111 1 110 1111 1010 110110111 111010 01 1 1 1 10 100 10 1011 111110101011 1111 11101111111101 10 110111 110 111011111 111111111 01 1 1 10
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,051
Words 246
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 34
Lines Amount 46
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 389
Words per stanza (avg) 102

About this poem

I wrote this in ten minutes. This is the first poem I have ever written. It might be terrible but this is how I feel

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Written on February 12, 2022

Submitted by on February 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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