Analysis of People are not Poetry.
You can write for hours on hours,
Of all the things that you wish you could be,
But the truth of the matter is simple;
People are not poetry,
And I know that you wish you weren't awkward,
That sweet words could just slide off your tongue,
But your time here's too short just to worry,
How each single sentence is strung,
It's okay to be rough round the edges,
To be bruised up and broken and scarred,
But it's not okay to let people tell you,
That it's a reason to change who you are,
Your hair doesn't always sit neatly,
The way a poem sits so neatly in lines,
And sometimes you might feel like a word,
That nobody has learnt to define,
You might not be a star that lights darkness,
Or a bird who can teach us to soar,
But it's okay, because you are too complex,
To be crammed into one metaphor,
It's okay not to know what you're doing,
Since your feelings don't have to all rhyme
Though poem once complete is eternal,
You have the freedom to change over time,
You're much more than can ever be written,
Don't need a title to say “This Is Me”,
You can't be trapped in the lines of a notebook,
Because people are not poetry.
Scheme | XABACDADXXXXAXCXXEXEXFBFXAX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110110 1101111111 1011010110 1011100 01111111010 111111111 1111111110 11101011 111111010 111101001 1111111011 1101011111 11101110 01010111001 001111101 1111101 1111011110 101111111 1110111110 111011100 111111110 111011111 1101011010 1101011101 1111110110 1101011111 1111001101 011011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,101 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 27, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 20, 2016
Modified on April 19, 2023
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