Analysis of Skin
Look in the mirror and I see
Someone who doesn’t look like me.
It’s skin is tight and there’s too much,
It has some parts that I don’t want.
When people look at me they say
They see (him/her)
I say okay.
They see my mom, my dad, my aunt,
But they don’t see me how I want.
Avoid mirrors, don’t look at them,
(Every day since who-knows-when.)
My nails are sharp, not sharp enough,
The knife leaves lines
and cracks and cuts.
They let me see what’s underneath.
A different name, a different me.
A different person, all their own.
Not him or her, someone whose grown.
Someone who knows just who they are,
Someone who doesn’t need the scars.
I’ll leave them underneath for now,
A secret I’ll keep to myself.
And maybe just a friend or two,
Until I finally tell a few.
And maybe then my family’s next,
From them don’t know what to expect.
I hope they’ll look at me and say
They still just see me, anyway.
And call me he or they or them
And use the name that fits my skin
And help me fix some other stuff
So people see me how I want.
Scheme | AAXB CXCXB DXEXX XAFFXX XXGGXXCCDXEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010011 111111 11110111 11111111 11011111 1110 111 11111111 11111111 01101111 10011111 11111101 0111 0101 1111001 0100101001 010010111 1110111 1111111 111101 1110111 0101111 01010111 011100101 0101111 11111101 11111101 1111110 01111111 01011111 01111101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,025 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 6, 12 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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