Analysis of Glue
Nola Debera Leech 2003 (Iowa)
Bone skeletons and hallowed corpses
It’s not hard to pick out the ones that are already dead
Circus freak girls who look in the funhouse mirrors and see elephants staring back at them
Shrunken rib bones form into a cage that at this point barely holds a soul
Mix my blood into the many glasses of water you’ll drink today
So you too can feel hollow and empty
Fragile like broken glass, skin thin as paper
Insides cold as ice, snow glob girl trapped in breakable glass
Lipid eyes and blue fingernails
Unhealthy has become a muse
Heroine eyes and thin lipped smiles
Glass will eventually shatter, fruit will rot
Scraped skin and bruised knees
Pink lemonade daydreams
I am the definition of sick
Of self harm, of mental illness
I am the change, the wiling ness to get better
I have been broken but I know how to put myself back together
I can help you put yourself back together
It’s hard but all you need is glue
It’s starts with you
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPGGGQQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001010 11111101110101 101111001100110010111 101110101111110101 11101010101101101 1111110010 10110111110 01111111101001 1010110 01010101 10010111 110100010111 11011 11011 11001011 11111010 110101011110 1111011111111010 11111011010 11111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 932 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 750 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 173 |
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