Analysis of You Probably Have Athlete's Foot in Your Mouth...



Recycled bottled up emotions
Pour out like ink on paper.
I’d speak, but I refuse
To hear my voice waver.

You look down at me,
And I feel so small.
Your words weigh on me,
But I will not let myself fall.

In the morning,
Apologies will rain.
But as of tonight,
I’ll cling to this pain.

You’ll tell me they were just words;
That you were just weak.
But remember, from the heart
So shall the mouth speak.


Scheme XAXA BCBC XDXD XEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 010101010 1111110 111101 111110 11111 01111 11111 1111111 0010 010011 11101 11111 1111011 11011 1010101 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 391
Words 79
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Rachel

I can't write about myself in third person, so let's make this an autobiography.I'm Rachel. I'm a nineteen year old college student. And, well, I'm pretty boring. I'm awkward, and I'm selfish. I'm both too serious and too whimsical. I'm hundreds of conflicts contained in a girl. I've only had one real love and I've been head over heels since I was fourteen (He's too stubborn to leave). Most things I write have a little of him between the lines. I'm trying to find my way through growing up and constantly fighting my instincts to pack up and runaway. I think too much and terrify myself. Life scares me and sometimes I forget to live. Insomnia and feeling lost led me here (it also led me to start blogging: http://growinguplostgirl.blogspot.com/)I'm here to grow so please critique anything and everything I post. The structure of my poems would probably give my old high school English teachers a heart attack. My punctuation, or lack there of, probably wouldn't make them feel any better. I get that people are very protective of their creations, but you can tear mine to shreds, as long as you respect the emotions behind them. Harsh criticism wont make me sob into a pillow, promise. more…

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