Analysis of Beauty Standards
A tap of the screen taps at my heart.
My mind is slowly falling apart.
Take a break. Take a step back.
You're strong. You're pretty. You're better than that!
But not so much as her. Her stomach's so small.
The next girl looks at men and wins them all.
I can see her abs. I can see my rolls.
How come I'm never meeting my goals?
I love eating junk. It sucks me in.
I look in the mirror. It feels like a sin.
My skin is so pale. Her stomach's so small.
I'll never look like a Barbie doll.
I'm crashing. Shaking.
Heart is aching.
What's it like to feel like ENOUGH?
Instead of this SUFF-
ocation.
I now hate going on vacation.
Because vacation means my body will show.
I don't want to go
Where people will see me
and don't even get me...
So I sit in the breaking.
I sit in the aching,
And tap at the screen that taps at my heart
Another day passes that I'm broken apart.
Scheme | AA XX BB CC DD BX EE FF DX GG HH EE AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011111 111101001 1011011 1111011011 1111100111 0111110111 111011111111 111101011 111011110 11001011101 111110111 110110101 11010 1110 11111101 01111 1 111101010 01010111011 11111 110111 011011 1110010 110010 0110111111 010110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
External beauty is so easily at the forefront of our minds, and it's so easy to find aspects of our external beauty that we despise. Yet external beauty is not the entire picture of beauty. We often overlook the incredible internal aspects of our beauty that make us who we are.
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Written on May 06, 2022
Submitted by twinzmom15 on May 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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