Analysis of Like the Girls in School
1. The Daze
Do you remember when
We used to hold hands
And how you’d say things just to drag me down
Why did you want
So badly in your heart
To break me up
And tear me in two
I’m in a daze now
Amen
2. Pretty Hair
I didn’t tell on you
The same as the girls in school
The one who came to me
And said,
“My, you have pretty hair.”
She made me smile, she made me glow
even though
It was only for
A short instance
I smiled and watched her
Laugh and skip away
Onto share with the other
A jump for joy, a hoot and a holler
And then I felt
the gum
In my hair
And my smile
My smile diminished,
diminished away
I’d been fooled!
3. The Fat Girl
Never and to this day
Do I understand the mistreatment
I’d faced
Yes, I was the fat girl
how they loved to point it out
And that is when life was given
To my dysmorphic body image
I never fought back
I was a fat girl
Yes This was true
If only they had stopped
To take a moment in thought
That maybe I
had mommy issues too
4. The Fat Girl Takes Two
I never found that in myself,
A joy in being shameless and
cruel
It was a foreign thing
to me,
you see
I was never like the girls in school
Nor was I ever considered “cool”
I still remember
the lonely summer breaks
And how I was never picked
I still hear the disappointment
Of the boys making teams
The ones who had the last pick
They’d groan and gripe
as I was the last one left.
You’d think that I was deaf
Or perhaps I was just a thing
I had no feelings, I had no heart
Just a blob of nothingness
And that poor boy
The one forced
to dance with me
Who kept repeating how gross
I made him feel
How low I felt as I said, “I’m sorry.”
I wonder how the poor boy
is fairing these days
5. Hidden
Shortly after, I do recall
the agoraphobia came in
And my mother, Debra Lynn
Didn’t think
To take me to the shrink
Only that she was Annoyed
That I was there and would never leave
How dare I disturb her binge drinking
So I hid,
I hid away
In my room to figure life out
I would watch the kids play
But to me the risk seemed too great
6. Conclusion
I am sorry that nowadays
I may take things the wrong way
I may take your love for more than what it is
I was starved of acceptance
And I had no friends
So even a tad bit will get me lit
Please forgive me for
The humorously immature mindset
And I think of this
As I hold your hand
By the pool
Knowing that
You’re just like
The girls in school
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Metre | 01 110101 11111 0111111111 1111 110011 1111 01101 10011 01 101 11111 0110101 011111 01 111101 11111111 101 11101 0110 11010 10101 1011010 0111010010 0111 01 011 011 11010 01001 111 011 100111 11010010 11 111011 1111111 01111110 1111010 11011 11011 1111 110111 1101001 1101 110101 01111 1101101 01010100 10 110101 11 11 111010101 111100101 11010 010101 0111101 1110010 101101 0111011 1101 1110111 111111 10111101 111101111 1011100 0111 011 1111 1101011 1111 1111111110 1101011 1111 10 1010111 00010010 0110101 11 111101 1011101 111101101 111010110 111 1101 01111011 111011 11101111 010 1110110 1111011 11111111111 1111010 01111 1100111111 10111 01000011 01111 11111 101 101 111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,626 |
Words | 548 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 11, 10, 10, 5, 29, 14, 9, 6 |
Lines Amount | 104 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
About this poem
A personal confession to raise awareness of the harmful effects of bullying in school
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Written on May 21, 2023
Submitted by letmefeel.the.sommer.rains on May 21, 2023
Modified by letmefeel.the.sommer.rains on July 09, 2023
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