Analysis of Two Left Feet and Body Heat



helLo wallflower,
care for a dance?
i’m just lookIng to moVe,
not for romance.

i’m surE that corner is cozy,
and you don’t look all thAt loneLy.
but my dance card Is empty,
and I doubt thaT you’ll tempt me.

no marionettes here.
no strings aTtached.
show me what you’ve got.
let’s see how we’re matched.

stop alL that talking.
let’s dance your thoughts quiet.
no need to watch my toEs.
this isn’t a waltz; it’s a riot.


Scheme XAXA BBBB XCXC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0110 1101 111011 1101 11110110 01111110 1111110 0111111 111 1101 11111 11101 11110 111110 111111 11011010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 422
Words 78
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Rachel

I can't write about myself in third person, so let's make this an autobiography.I'm Rachel. I'm a nineteen year old college student. And, well, I'm pretty boring. I'm awkward, and I'm selfish. I'm both too serious and too whimsical. I'm hundreds of conflicts contained in a girl. I've only had one real love and I've been head over heels since I was fourteen (He's too stubborn to leave). Most things I write have a little of him between the lines. I'm trying to find my way through growing up and constantly fighting my instincts to pack up and runaway. I think too much and terrify myself. Life scares me and sometimes I forget to live. Insomnia and feeling lost led me here (it also led me to start blogging: http://growinguplostgirl.blogspot.com/)I'm here to grow so please critique anything and everything I post. The structure of my poems would probably give my old high school English teachers a heart attack. My punctuation, or lack there of, probably wouldn't make them feel any better. I get that people are very protective of their creations, but you can tear mine to shreds, as long as you respect the emotions behind them. Harsh criticism wont make me sob into a pillow, promise. more…

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