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
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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Submitted by baby_p on June 01, 2021

Modified by baby_p on July 16, 2021

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