Analysis of Tears she shed

Nabeelah 2006 (Portshepstone Kwazulu Natal)



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


Scheme XABXAC XXXX XXDXAXD BXCBXXXX BDXXDX
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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