Analysis of Are You NUTS



I want to be the Houdini of Idea
They just didn't know how he did it
How do you imagine such an idea
Do you dream

Oh yes, I dream
Not usually things I write about
Though, some of them
I should

There's the one about the guy, flying
He's in the sixth grade
He flys, as if he's swimming in water
Flying

Fifty-foot high
Over crossing-guards
With white belts, and straps
They look like officers

They're friends, in his class
There's the dog
He wishes he had come
But, what if he fell

Now he has a parachute
You think he needs a helmet
What next
A knife, and gun

You are nuts

Jack Richards
 copyright 2007
 whatifisit@yahoo.com


Scheme AXAB BXXX CXXC XXXX XXXX XXXX X XXB
Poetic Form
Metre 111100101010 111011111 11101011010 111 1111 1100011101 1111 11 101010110 10011 1111110010 10 1011 10101 11101 111100 11011 101 110111 11111 111010 1111010 11 0101 111 110 10 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 594
Words 120
Sentences 2
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 3
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 60
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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