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
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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