What to do when your at boarding school
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Deeply personal autobiography about boarding school, mental health, self-harm.
Multiple ideas densely packed: institutional critique, trauma, isolation, peer support.
Strongly negative throughout: suicidal ideation, despair, hopelessness, worsening condition.
Urgent, confrontational tone with rhetorical questions and declarative statements.
29 lines falls within 16-30 range.
Minimal ornament; mostly plain declarative language with limited metaphor/comparison.
Pure lyric internal monologue; direct first-person confessional voice throughout.
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