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
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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E.S. Conway

A poet by proxy of therapy. Her works (with only a couple of exceptions) are comprised of poems written in a form of therapy diary, they served for several years as an aid to dealing with situations that may or may not be within the poems themselves. This is also the reason for so much rhyming; though not necessary for poetry, it was part of what made poetry therapeutic for her and so is an almost certain constant. more…

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