Analysis of I Touch Myself Thinking About You
Matshidiso Nare 1999 (Johannesburg)
I touch myself thinking of you
I touch myself thinking of you
My fingertips hold a sharp blade
Oh how it traces itself at the edge of my veins
You’ve dressed my trauma so pretty it’s fuckable
You opened gates you were not given permission too
My body count increased without my acknowledgment
How do you suppose I feel
Take it into the grave you’ve said
I sit here counting the stars in the darkness
A home so pretty
Walls painted with blood
You’ve dressed my trauma so pretty it’s fuckable
Tie your fingers around my neck
I always looked better with a neck less
You’d say
It’s funny, the pain you’ve caused
My body craving hell but I pray for heaven
Sucked in as your cock deepens it’s self within me
My holy home ruined
My temple burned and buried
Only darkness dances circles in the middle of my worship grounds because you’ve dressed my trauma so pretty is fuckable.
Scheme | A AxxBaxbxxcxBxxxxxcxxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 1111011 1101011 1111001101111 1111011011 1101101100101 1101010110100 1110111 11010111 11110010010 01110 11011 1111011011 11100111 111101011 11 1100111 110101111110 101111011011 110110 1101010 10101010001011101011111011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 21 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 349 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
About this poem
The romanticising of the female trauma caused by nurtured violence…
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Written on February 15, 2021
Submitted by tshidie99 on June 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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