Analysis of She wrote.



With a pen she wrote a story,
Stretched across her old notebook.
About a girl who wanted to be noticed,
And a boy who refused to look.
And she wept and wept and wept,
Leaving an inky, tear-sodden page,
But she swept the issue under a rug,
And brought it all down to their age.

With the same pen she wrote,
This time on a newer, nice notepad.
About her dropping, declining grades,
And how her parents were so mad.
And she tried and tried and tried,
To hold her emotions behind her eyes,
And she realised she would never be good enough.
No matter how hard she tried.

With a drag and a puff of smoke,
And something alcoholic between her lips,
She wrote drunkenly on a piece of paper,
About how her life had come to this.
And she winced and winced and winced,
At the messy drawings on her am,
How some were faded, how some were fresh.
How she could cause herself such harm.

With her crimson wrists the subject,
And a piece of broken glass.
She wrote her final story,
Before her body would finally pass.
And she stayed silent, silent, silent.
She was a stature laying in red.
She thought
“What use to words on paper have
When I am already
Truly
Dead.”


Scheme ABCBXDXD XCXXEXXE XXXXXXXX XFAFXGXXAAG
Poetic Form
Metre 10111010 101011 01011101110 00110111 0110101 101101101 1110101001 01111111 101111 11101011 010100101 01010011 0110101 1100100101 01111101101 1101111 10100111 0100100101 111101110 011011111 0110101 101010101 110101101 11110111 10101001 0011101 1101010 0101011001 011101010 110101001 11 11111101 111010 10 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,156
Words 253
Sentences 16
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 11
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 222
Words per stanza (avg) 55

About this poem

A poem with shows the struggles of self harm and suicide.

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Submitted by alicesouthern4 on January 27, 2024

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