Analysis of "Are you okay?"

Ruby Curtis 2011 (Hanham)



"Are you okay?"

What I don't say is how when sometimes the room gets so quiet, I'm scared people can hear the heart thumping so violently in my chest.
Or how I'm scared they can hear the harsh rapid breaths that kept getting stuck in my throat.
Or how I was choking on the oxygen filling my lungs which I was suffocating on since I couldn't figure out how to breathe.

It's funny how when the room gets the quietest I feel the loudest.
It's funny how I feel most in the way when I'm in the corner.

I don't say how I think I'm a burden on them, or how they shouldn't soften their tone when they speak to me.
Or how I wish they wouldn't treat me like glass.
Or how they shouldn't tread on eggshells around me.
Even if I was made of glass, I would've shattered a long time ago.

I start to feel stupid, like I'm in their way, like I'm getting on their nerves by just being there .
By wasting the oxygen by breathing.
By destroying a body I'm lucky to call my own.
By starving it, by cutting it, by bullying it in the mirror.

I start to feel like I should just go, it's stupid of me to stay anyways.

"Oh yeh I'm fine."


Scheme X XXX XA BXBX XXXA X X
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111111101011110111011011011000011 11111110110111101011 11111010100101111110011110101111 11011011010011010 1101111001110010 11111110101111110101111111 11111101111 11110111011 101111111101001101 11111011011111011111101 1100100110 10100101101111 11011101110010010 111111111110111110 1111
Characters 1,119
Words 244
Sentences 17
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 2, 4, 4, 1, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 53
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on October 29, 2023

Submitted by banan_bee123 on October 30, 2023

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