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Helplessly helpless.

Mishal Maryam

Rhymed
In her sad doe eyes...
a little bit of sunshine
but a little more of thunder,
that she hides behind those blinds.

Smiles at others,
cusses at herself...
helps everyone else,
but so helplessly helpless herself.

About this poem

its about someone who appears to be happy on the outside but is hiding her own pain.

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Submitted by mishikhanay860 on July 08, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XAXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 202
Words 36
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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