Analysis of Expectation
Existing in its feeling
but without knowing its source.
Stuck to me like a second skin.
I searched for it
and dug deep along each edge
each corner
and grasped
and pulled
and shaped the pieces into its conceptual truth.
But outside.
I looked at it apart from me;
held in my hands.
Looked at what it is
without my essence as its vessel.
Something not of me.
But living within me.
Heavy. In secret.
A learned reaction that simply was.
But was not simple.
Built from the beliefs of others.
Then.
I held it out.
I let it slip between my fingers.
Just as wet sand beneath the ocean
with help from the tide.
As sure as disappointment
it will return.
Like a fly almost caught.
A lie almost told.
But for today
I've let it fall.
Today I've put it in a bin beneath the bed.
Today I am less weighed by its burden.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110 1011011 11110101 1111 0110111 110 01 01 0101001101001 111 11110111 1011 11111 011101110 10111 110011 10010 010101101 11110 11001110 1 1111 111101110 111101010 11101 111010 1101 10111 0111 1101 1111 011110010101 0111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 806 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 10, 5, 8 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem as I personally started breaking through cracks in the wall of expectations society puts on women. I could see my life without the heaviness of expectation, even for just a day.
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Written on November 01, 2021
Submitted by kelley on May 27, 2022
Modified on March 22, 2023
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