Analysis of Trick or Treat



Just now, there is a stranger in my bed
Blue eyes, white skin and straight flowing hair
Blowing in the wind of my standing fan
I did not hear my kinky-haired wife make her exit
I did not see my olive-skinned baby leave
But this stranger in her place is as comfy as our black cat
Curled up in our bed at will – My wife’s and mine
Her gaze so deep, so uncomfortably familiar
Her smile so slight with its gentle lift
Possessing my soul and reading my thoughts
In her foreign casing, so disconcerting
But her callaloo birthmark is on the very same spot  
This mysterious witch who pulls at my heart!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111010011 111101101 1000111101 1111110111010 11111101101 1110001111011011 110101111101 011110100010 011111101 0101101011 0010101010 10111101011 10100111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 596
Words 114
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 114

About this poem

As beauty technology evolves, women are able to transform themselves to the point that they are almost unrecognizable to those around them, including their loved ones. This poem explores the impact of one such transformation.

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Submitted by novdel02 on June 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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