Analysis of Unwelcome Guest



You wake and I'm with you.
You wash and I watch you.
You work with me in you.
You feed while I eat you.
I'm your silent companion
And you can't shake me off.
I'm your stow away passenger,
Your unwelcome guest

Where love lives I lurk near it.
Where blood flows I ride with it.
Where life starts I pollute it.
Where lust grows I thrive on it.
I'm your sleeper agent,
Your terrorist cell.
I'm your hidden agenda
And nobody can tell.

Hush don't talk of my presence.
Hush don't say I exist.
Hush don't mention I live here.
Hush, our secret must persist.
If he knows he'll reject you
And he'll tell the whole world.
If they know they'll all judge you
Your reputation unfurled.

When you touch him I'm crawling.
When you kiss him I'm walking.
When you taste him I'm running.
When you hold him I'm sprinting.
And you lie next to him now
Just a casual encounter.
And I lie within him now
His new lifelong spectator.

So accept me, be a good keeper
So embrace my affliction
So endure me, hide me deeper
So conceal my contagion
Because I'm with you for life now
If that's what you call it.
I'm your poison and strife now
And you had best not ignore it.


Scheme AAAABXCX DDDDXEXE XFXFAGAG HHHHICIC CBCBIDID
Poetic Form Etheree  (28%)
Metre 110111 110111 111101 111111 1110010 011111 11101100 10101 1111111 1111111 1111011 1111111 111010 11001 1110010 0111 1111110 111101 1110111 11010101 1111011 011011 1111111 101001 1111110 1111110 1111110 1111110 0111111 10100010 0110111 1111100 101110110 1011010 10111110 1011010 01111111 111111 1110011 01111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,100
Words 220
Sentences 26
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 174
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 11, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Richard Pryce-williams

I like to write about love, loss and controversy… Be that abortion, sleazy sex, politics or HIV… I also write a blog brucejordan.blogspot.com more…

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