Analysis of Girl inside
E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)
I felt once so deformed,
Unhappy in myself,
Wishing I chose another me,
From those upon the shelf.
But then I found the courage,
To listen to that voice,
that cherished little part of me,
She presented me a choice.
On the one hand there was death.
An end to all my pain.
But this was not a choice I'd make,
So I had to think again.
On the other was a secret,
A truth of which, if told,
Would open up my life,
To troubles, new and old.
But make a choice I did.
To tell and not to die,
Of the girl below the surface,
Inside the boy that is a lie.
Scheme | XABA XCBC XXXX XDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 111101 01001 10110101 110101 1111010 110111 11010111 1010101 1011111 111111 11110111 1111101 10101010 011111 110111 110101 110111 110111 10101010 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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