Analysis of Thin Enough
A beautiful girl, but just a little overweight
People called her names, so nothing is what she ate.
She felt so alone; she didn’t know what to do.
She just wanted to be thin, like the other girls she knew.
She was hungry all the time, but still refused to eat.
Her skin was pale, and her body so weak.
In the corner of the room, is where the scale sat.
It may have showed progress, but still she felt fat.
She was losing herself, little by little.
She always felt cold and her bones became brittle.
Food was the enemy; she drilled that in her head.
She felt if she weren’t thin, she’d rather just be dead.
The perfect body and the perfect size,
All she wanted was not to be criticized.
Three years later, and only ninety-five pounds,
I guess the girl she wanted, she still hadn’t found
The day that she died, everyone came,
Shaking their heads and taking the blame.
As they closed the casket, they sat and wondered why.
Being thin was so important.
Important enough to die.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFGGHIJKLLMNM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011101001 101011101111 11101111111 11101111010111 1110101110111 0111001011 001010111011 1111111111 11100110110 11110010110 110100111001 111111110111 0011000011 1110111110 11100101011 11011101111 01111101 101101001 111010110101 10111010 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 981 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 752 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 183 |
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