Analysis of A Different Way (MAJOR TW for self-injury)



I brace myself
For the oncoming pain.
I hear the many rips
Of my hair yanking out,
One by one.
I stare for a moment
At the bunch of hair
In my hand,
My eyes watering from
The expected pain.
I feel the throbbing
Of my head,
Deprived of some hair.
My head now aches
And throbs;
The top of my head is now
Raw from the forceful yanking.
I hide my now-detached hair
In a clump of tissues,
Hoping no one will notice
So I can dispose
Of the evidence,
So no one would know
That I have
Ripped out my hair.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIBJKGLCMJGNOPQRSG
Poetic Form Tetractys  (32%)
Metre 111 10101 110101 111101 111 111010 10111 011 111001 00101 11010 111 01111 1111 01 0111111 1101010 1111011 00111 1011110 11101 10100 11111 111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 504
Words 122
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 381
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on April 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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