Analysis of Self

Mmeli Khumalo 2004 (Boksburg)



“To fall in love with yourself
is the first secret to happiness.”
You may not understand now,
but trust me you will.
 You will soon understand that through self-love
 lies true and divine healing.
You will soon be able to see that true happiness comes from within.

When other people look at you,
 they see a smart, confident, creative, beautiful soul.
 Why is when you look at yourself,
all you see is an inept, pessimistic, imbecile.
Why do you dislike yourself so much?
Who is to blame for such an immense amount of self-loathing?

Maybe your mother’s emotional negligence,
or maybe your father’s absenteeism from your life is to blame.
You don’t know, and maybe you’ll never know, but there is one thing you should know, sometimes not knowing can be the best thing.
After all, “life is not about knowing, having to change,
 taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”


Scheme AXXXXBX XXAXXB XXBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101 101101100 111011 11111 111011111 1100110 11111011111001101 11010111 11011000101001 11111101 1111101010100 111010111 111111101011110 101100100100 1101100100111111 1110101101111111110111011011 10111101101011 10010010011101100101101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 947
Words 180
Sentences 12
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 5
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 238
Words per stanza (avg) 53

About this poem

"Self" is a poem that encourages and embraces self-acceptance and self-love.

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Written on October 21, 2021

Submitted by mljkhumalo on June 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mmeli Khumalo

17 year old boy from boksburg, vosloorus. Loves reading and writing, an aspiring writer. more…

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