Analysis of A Step In The Mind
There be nothing dreadful than a roving mind
I take this responsibility to have you remind
Do not force me ever to rewind
Never do make me reverse to unwind
This thought does not ever bind
Though a good treasure one can find
My evil mind often goes haywire
And thinks things impossible.
To be in a womb seems so sweet
I admire inside there to have a seat
Tis comfy and quite slick
A pipe delivers food in a tick
How I envy babies unborn and weak
No worries though to speak
My evil mind often goes haywire
And thinks things impossible
Another interesting thing be the grave
Do not blame me here to grieve
Those in the grave be not in a mind so grave
Their souls somewhere do save
Finally the bodies end in a grave
To be dust that God did give
My evil mind often goes haywire
And thinks things impossible.
The past and the future are not to worry
Lest one time we be sorry
Living today be the only story
Tomorrow is future and past history
Do not the past to today carry
Leave it where you had it bury
My evil mind often goes haywire
And thinks things impossible
Scheme | a a a a a a B C d d e e f f B C g x g g g x B C h h h h h h B C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010101 1110010011101 111110110 1011101101 1111101 10110111 11011011 0110100 11001111 1010111101 110011 010101001 1110101101 110111 11011011 0110100 0101001101 1111111 10011100111 11111 1000101001 1111111 11011011 0110100 01001011110 1111110 1001101010 0111001100 110110110 11111110 11011011 0110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,032 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 32 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
These are just hallucinations. There are things we have no control over them.
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