Analysis of What Girls Do
Isn't this what girls do?
I take off my shirt
like you ask
you tell me this is what girls do
i let you explore me
like you wanted
this is what girls do.
I say, to myself
every place i've been touched by you
is gaping open
bleeding and crying out
every ocean of you falling inside of me
licking itself up in my crevasses
you hurt me
like you wanted
is this what girls do?
you tell me everything i want to hear
The words pick me up and
lay me on my back
I convince myself
this is what girls do.
you get Angry
angry when I say no
i want to make you happy
you get so angry.
You strangle me with your hate
your fingers curl around my throat
and so my fingers curl around you.
when I am not enough
you leave to swim in another
fill her with the oceans of pretty words
This is what girls do
my friend says
I watch tears race down her face
over a boy who told her
the same thing
You must gawk in my nakedness
you must tear at my spirit
spitting pieces of me from your mouth
stuck between your teeth
Like a wolf licking at a helpless carcass
is that the sacrifice
I have to make for you
for you to bestow a fleeting praise upon me
to fill me up for a second of a million moments
is that what girls do?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 11111 111 11111111 111011 1110 11111 1111 100111111 11010 100101 1001011100111 10011011 111 1110 11111 111101111 011110 11111 1011 11111 1110 101111 1111110 11110 1101111 11010111 011101011 111101 11110010 1010101101 11111 111 1111101 1001110 011 111011 1111110 101011111 10111 10110101010 11010 111111 111010101011 11111010101010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,220 |
Words | 279 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 933 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 250 |
About this poem
A poem about feeling used.
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Written on January 04, 2022
Submitted on April 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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