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Self Love

Payton Hayes

Free verse
you don't have to
love yourself
everyone says to,

that you can't really
love someone completely
if you don't love yourself

the truth is, you just have
to accept yourself and say

it might get better,
it might not, but I'll
stick around anyways
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Written on 2019

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 31, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABA CCB XX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 245
Words 49
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2, 3
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