Analysis of Beauty Within
I open my eyes
Feel the world beneath my feet
My fingers wiggle with glee
Noticing all the potential
In the day
I glanced out my window
Seeing the sway in the trees
I made a way
To my bible
Opening the pages
Filled with highlights
Reading the words
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, my soul knows this well”
Psalms 139-14
The verse I was always referred to
Once I mentioned insecurities
"God made you"
"You’re beautiful" they said
I agreed with skepticism laced
Throughout my thoughts
How can everyone be beautiful
That just can't be
Cause growing up
We were split into these groups of those
Who just had this outer glow
And those who were deemed
Just a little bit raggedy all below
Those who just didn't fit into
the standard of beautiful
So how could all be beautiful
The question seemed just a little vain to ask
But "God I want a answer"
I said
And he responded by simply
Widening my eyes
Beauty in the
They way our lips curl up
When we find something amusing
In the manner our eyes crinkle
While veiling our hopes and wonders
The way as we age
Our wrinkles and lines
Wrapped around our face
Tell a tale
That continues to prevail
They way our tongues
Absorb the flavor of the world
The way we burst with excitement
When surrounded by others
We have grown to love
The way we come in all
Different shapes and sizes
The way our lips smack and
arms cross with emotions
That continually flow
Wilder than rivers
The way we
segregate into differing cultures with different customs,
But still share the same breath
That sustains
The way we all have unique prints
On the very tip of every hand
We are beautiful
Beauty found in every morsel
That makes us human
In every morsel that makes
Me just me
And you just you
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 1010111 1101011 10010010 001 111110 1001001 1101 1110 100010 111 1001 1111101110101001101111111101000110011111111 1 01111011 11100100 111 110011 10111001 0111 11101100 1111 1101 101011111 1111101 01101 10101100101 11110101 0101100 11111100 01011010111 1111010 11 01010110 10011 1000 1110111 11110010 00101011 110101010 01111 101001 101101 101 1010101 11101 01010101 01111010 1010110 11111 011101 1001010 0110110 111010 1010001 10110 011 100110010110010 111011 101 01111011 1010111001 11100 101010010 11110 01001011 111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,892 |
Words | 391 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 13, 11, 6, 5, 5, 2, 3, 2, 4, 4, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 68 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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