Analysis of I'm Not Okay



Each day,
In every way,
People say,
I'm not okay.

So, you wonder why I'm like this?
Could it be your love, your words, your kiss?
But now you leave me standing here on memory bliss.
You're the one I can't live without, the one that I miss.

I tear out my heart, swallow my tears.
I don't listen to my peers.
Realizing that I will never give my heart out in those future years.
All my happiness all turn to fears.

You could never imagine what you've done to me.
Never will I love again, nevermore will I see.
Nerlver will you experience this evil pain, I guarantee.
You said, I'd get over you, but I disagree.

How can your love die so fast?
Did you ever stop to think about our past?
I thought we were perfect, why couldn't it last?
You left me here, my heart still in a cast.

I sit here, all on my own.
No one to talk to, no late nights on the phone.
In my mind, questions still flown,
No explanations, unknown.

I hope you remember how much you loved me.
I hope you remember our good times planning a spree.
I hope you remember proposing, down on bended knee.
I hope you always remember our tree.

So everyday,
In every possible way,
People harshly say,
I'm not okay


Scheme aaaA bbbb xccc dddd eeee ffff dddd aaaA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (88%)
Metre 11 01001 101 111 11101111 111111111 1111110111001 1011110101111 111111011 1110111 10011110111101101 111001111 111001011111 101110110111 11101001101101 111110111001 1111111 111011101101 11100111011 1111111001 1111111 11111111101 0111011 101001 11101011111 11101010111001 11101001011101 1111010101 1101 01001001 10101 111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,172
Words 265
Sentences 25
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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2001

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Written on December 03, 2001

Submitted by suzbsbkurtz on April 30, 2024

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Suzanne Rose

Been writing for 20 years, however I did get writers block and lost my passion for quite a long time. Trying to find myself again more…

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