Analysis of Have You Met the Boogie Man?
Sometimes worst-case scenarios
Are born inside my head
A mental Boogie Man who shows
The kind of life I've led.
The kind of life where fear stops by
And even in my dreams
Wreaks havoc even though I try
To think of things like streams.
My Boogie Man cannot control
The things I do and say,
But he affects my daily role
With detours on the way.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 01110100 110111 01010111 011111 01111111 010011 11010111 111111 11011001 011101 11011101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 344 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Mental Battlefields
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Written on October 02, 2023
Submitted by stevec.24118 on October 02, 2023
Modified by stevec.24118 on October 02, 2023
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