Analysis of Eat.
Eat.
All i have to do is take a bite
All i have to do is eat the damn sandwich
But my throat is getting tight
The chewing feels like i'm chewing glass
Eat the damn sandwich
The glass goes down
The guilt comes up
After we can feel the pain
After we can take the blade again
If you just eat the damn sandwich
So you eat the sandwich
Are you proud of yourself?
Are you proud the scale is going to have an extra pound now
Go in your room and lock the door
Grab the blade from the floor
Are you proud of yourself?
Couldn't even eat one sandwich without putting 1… 2… 3… cuts right on the thigh
The thigh that the fat of that sandwich will to go
The thigh that has become a cutting board to you
Are you proud of yourself?
Next the wrist
The stomach
The shoulder
The ankle
Are you proud of yourself?
The scars will be there for life
Cause you couldn’t say no to that knife
The scars people will ask about
And when the do all you want to do is shout
I'm not proud
Eat, they say.
Scheme | xabaxb xxxxb bCxdd CxxxC xxxxC eeffx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111111101 11111110110 1111101 010111101 10110 0111 0111 1011101 101110101 11110110 111010 111101 111011101111011 10110101 101101 111101 10101110011011101 011011110111 011101010111 111101 101 010 010 010 111101 0111111 11111111 01101101 01011111111 111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 987 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on April 03, 2022
Submitted by laniebug1980 on April 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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