Analysis of The Impact of a Cruel World
They tell
Me my head
Is too big for
My body, I tell
Them they
need
To be skinnier, their
Parents tell them they need to
Gain weight, they aren’t supposed to
weigh so little at such an age,
Others tell them to stop eating so much,
“You’re too fat.”
“You’re too skinny”
“Why do your thighs have a gap?”
“Your stomach is bigger than my dads”
“Are you pregnant?” “You’re anorexic.”
“Your waist is smaller than my thigh.”
They believe the lies and stop eating,
from three meals a day,
to three diet pills a day
They become Americas
pretty stereotype
Until they
are
no
M
O
R
E
Scheme | ABCADEFGGHIJKLMNOPDDQRDSTUTSK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 111 1111 11011 11 1 111001 1011111 11110011 11101111 1011111011 111 1110 1111101 110110111 11101010 11110111 101010110 11101 1110101 1010100 10100 011 1 1 1 1 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,519 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
About this poem
This poem, recites how a young person in today's modern society feels. How others words can have such a big impact on one person.
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Written on May 11, 2021
Submitted by dvanmeter. on February 11, 2022
Modified on March 13, 2023
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