Analysis of Stumps for Fingernails
Bloody stumps for fingernails,
is all I have to show,
for all of my constraint,
to contain the overflow.
For every inconvenience,
you simply couldn't bear,
I added to my pile,
And carried everywhere.
When you did not have the time,
to face your fears, mistakes, and pain,
You stacked in all on me,
And I didn't even strain.
I said nothing when my pile,
grew so high to kiss the moon.
I just stuffed away the hurts for you,
and whistled out a tune.
A masterful pretender,
and fooling even me,
I accepted my life sentence,
just to smile and agree.
I stand alone in peace
And the peace, oh I did keep.
But the weight is now too heavy.
Too hefty is this heap.
And all of your discomfort,
that was placed atop my pile,
doesn't disappear with me.
It grows by every mile.
But because I am no diva,
and don't wish to complain,
the pile that you didn't want,
I continue to maintain.
To never dim your twinkle,
I do not wish to glow.
And bloody stumps for fingernails,
is all I have to show.
Scheme | aBcbdefeghihfjkjlidimninofifphqhrbaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 111111 111101 101010 1100010 110101 110111 01010 1111101 11110101 110111 0110101 1110111 1111101 111010111 010101 0100010 010101 10101110 111001 110101 0011111 10111110 110111 0111010 1110111 100111 1111001 10111110 011101 0111101 1010101 1101110 111111 0101110 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 983 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 750 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 189 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem out of sheer frustration at myself. Do you know the feeling of finally realizing just how pathetic you have been in a relationship? That is where this came from. I had bitten down all of my nails.
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Written on August 01, 2022
Submitted by abigail.steiner on August 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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