Analysis of Apple Scented Shampoo



the air had never scented so pure before.

her limbs touched the ground hardly
as her body heaved and swayed against the breeze
perspiration rollin from her body,
her feet numb with fatigue
but she never stopped for another break.

she'd waited for too long, and life
had thrown her the consequence
now no longer was she that harmless child
who kept her emotions closeted.

twisting the silver door knob,
let the spirals of crystal shoot into her skin
leaving behind a warmth
the warmth- that she had never felt before.

the scent of the apple scented shampoo,
the freshness that embarked her mind
into a world where all colours existed
a world beyond just black and white.

poking the bubbles to burst
fleeting an amicable sensation down her spine
why- had she not showered in this tiny bathroom
then why had she never felt like this before?

the light of the tube light,
the sun kissed shine of the froth
the scent of familiarity but non familiarity at once.
had it been right for her to do
what she'd never done before?

was it a crime to rise up again
when you'd been slashed and slapped
and corseted into the mud for years abound
so this time she rose back
for the mud who'd been her grave, was actually the grace
that gave her the strength to turn around.

and now it was no turning back
no matter what they said
she didn't have to be the good girl
she just had to be ... herself.


Scheme A BXBXX XCXX XXXA DXXE XXXA EXCDA XXFGXF GXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01110101101 0110110 10101010101 010101010 011101 1110110101 11011101 1100100 1110111101 110010100 1001011 101011010101 100101 0111110101 0110101001 01010101 0101111010 01011101 1001011 1011000010101 11111001101 11111011101 011011 0111101 011010011010011 11111011 1110101 110111101 111101 0101011101 111111 1011101110001 110011101 01111101 110111 110111011 1111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,389
Words 279
Sentences 11
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 29

About this poem

Have you broken down under the shower after a hard day? After escaping a bad romance, a toxic partner, a tough meeting at work where you had to put up a tough face when your insides were crumbling? Apple Scented Shampoo is about rising up again. Its about finding your strengths and going overboard.

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Submitted by choudhuryswastika7 on September 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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S Choudhury

S Choudhury is a poet, aspiring novelist and song writer. She is a 17 year old teenager who has been writing since she could hold a pencil. She has been awarded with many accolades both nationally and internationally and is hoping to make it big in the writing industry one day. more…

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