Analysis of Tears she shed
All the tears she shed were words she refused to speak
Which she watched fall down to the paper
Smothering the lies she tells everyone
She had written them down to rehearse
She thought it was the perfect cover
But the knots in her stomach suggested otherwise
More tears ran down her cheeks
And the paper was completely wet
The thoughts she wrote down were smudged
And the pen in her hand escaped from being used to cover up what she really felt inside
She was alone and nobody knew
She'd started journaling about how she felt
But was good at lying
That she even started decieving herself
Journaling emotions and feelings foreign to her
Writing down what went down with somebody else
All in the name of wanting to see herself as a perfect being
Her tears told stories she'd worked to keep hidden
Stories that she wanted nobody to find out about
But the knots in her stomach said otherwise
Made her choke on the lies she told everyone
Suffocated her with the truth every second
But she always played the game well
Anti-depressants after 3 hours
Were enough for her to feel better again
She just wanted to feel normal and be loved by everyone
Had different masks to put on to appear normal and appealing
But the tears she sheds today tell stories of recovery and hope
And maybe one day
She'll stop masquerading
And reveal her true identity
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110110111 111111010 100011110 111011101 111100110 101001001010 111101 001010101 0111101 00100101110111011110101 1101011 110101111 111110 111010101 10100101010 1011111101 10011101101100110 01110111110 101110111101 1010010110 1011011110 100010110010 1111011 100101010 00110111001 11101110011110 11001111101100010 1011101110101001 01011 11010 001010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,341 |
Words | 247 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 7, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
About this poem
A girl struggling to accept herself for who she is
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Written on September 10, 2022
Submitted by nabeelaradebe on November 24, 2022
Modified on April 03, 2023
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