Analysis of Anorexic



Is it you
WHO has become
 mentally thin
in your thinking
are the bones of your morals
beginning to show
through the stretched
cracking skin
of your empathy
where the fat
of your common sense
can no longer grow
when you refused
to feed
on all the things
that you should know


Scheme ABCDEFGCHIJFKLMF
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 1001 0110 1011110 01011 101 101 11100 101 11101 11101 1101 11 1101 1111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 273
Words 52
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 221
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted on December 06, 2016

Modified on March 22, 2023

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