Analysis of Buying Beauty
Rosalynn Scott 2001
You buy makeup
You buy skimpy clothes
Cute underwear
Lacy bras
For what use
To make boys want us
To have them use us
For our body
Rather than loving our souls
We buy fake boobs
We buy plastic for our lips
We buy parts for our nose
Why do we waste money
On ourselves to be loved
When we barely love ourselves
| Scheme | ABCDEFFGHIJKGLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
| Metre | 111 11101 110 101 111 11111 11111 11010 10110101 1111 11101101 1111101 111110 1001111 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 315 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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This poem is about the views of society and how young women view themselves and the unfortunate consequences of society
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