Analysis of Skin and bones
Kody Gravestock 2007 (Cheltenham)
Skin and bones.
Let me be reduced to
Skin and bones.
I’m far too used to
Skin and bones.
It’s all that I aspire to be
I see that paper is thinner than me
But my skin is so much more than
Skin and bones
Something in me craves to be full
Something in me cries to be indulged
But if I listen to it, I will lose it all.
I’ll shut it out for just a while longer
Only the weakest of us give in to hunger.
| Scheme | A b A b A c c x A x x x d d |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 111011 101 11111 101 11110111 1111011011 11111111 101 10011111 100111101 111101111111 1111110110 100101110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 432 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
It’s about eating disorders and the struggle with body image
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