Analysis of Have You Met the Boogie Man?

Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)



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

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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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