Analysis of I'm not what they say.
I lay curled up in a corner
of a room with no light.
My tears will drown me,
i've been here all night.
Down the river, not across the street.
hopefully you've cut deep,
otherwise you're worse off than when you started.
So blood drips from my leg
down to my ankle, on my feet.
The blood is velvet red, bitter sweet.
I cry in the silence of the night.
I bleed and blood flows
only if someone knew.
only if someone understood my pain.
I curl up tighter, hugging my knees.
'pathetic', i think.'all alone.'
I feel my tears dry. my blood dries.
I feel light and pass out.
I open my eyes again. I'm not dead.
I sigh and close my eyes.
I stand up and wash my face.
'disgrace' i mutter. 'failure at life.'
I look in the mirror. Thats not me.
Their words arent true.
They call me :Fatass. Ugly. Stupid.
I agreed.
And maybe, I'm not the skinniest.
I'm far from it.
Ans maybe I'm not the prettiest.
But I'm not hideous.
And maybe im not a genious.
But neither are they. I'm not what they say.
And I have some self worth. So i'll live today.
Scheme | XABACXDXCCAEFXXXGX XGXXBFDXHXHXEII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110010 101111 11111 11111 101010101 100111 1011111110 111111 11110111 011101101 110010101 11011 10111 10110111 111101011 01011101 11111111 111011 1101101111 110111 1110111 011101011 110010111 11101 11111010 101 010110100 1111 110110100 111100 0101101 1101111111 01111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 996 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 37 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 15 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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