Analysis of Five Letters
Keyndal Thomas 2007 (AZ)
Throughout your academic endeavors
You are defined by five letters
The Alphabetical Bureaucracy that defines your intelligence
The lower the grade, the lower your elegance
Told not to judge the fish, but only given the tree
Why does it only take a letter to define me
My letter is F, failure and forgotten
No matter how hard I work, I'll only be labeled as rotten
Disappointment lingers with the strokes of red
Scolded for not using my head
Told to apply myself to the material
Questioned why I'm confused about something so trivial
Forgotten is my label, untitled is my name
Just the girl who doesn't try
Told I have only myself to blame
But what does it mean to apply
To study for hours and deprive yourself of sleep?
To pay attention in class when the teacher doesn't even teach?
Seven classes, demanding undivided attention
You can only handle so much knowledge retention
No matter how much its preached
That letters don’t define
They hinder your ability to reach
And slowly does your confidence decline
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GHGH XIDD XJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 011010010 11011110 00100010010110100 010010101100 1111011101001 1111010101011 11011100010 1101111110110110 0101010111 10111011 11011100100 10110101101100 01011101111 1011101 11110111 11111101 1101100010111 1101001101010101 1010010010010 1110101110010 1101111 110101 1101010011 0101110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,025 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
This poem is about the mental battle of an overthinker
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