Analysis of "Paranoid"



Do people stare?
Or maybe I’m just scared.
 Scared of what people might think of me.

There’s a feeling,
A feeling of others constantly judging you.
Are they actually though?

Maybe it’s because society is so competitive,
And life is so complicated.


Scheme XXX XXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 110111 111101111 1010 010110100101 111001 101010100110100 0111100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 255
Words 44
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by livr45058 on July 22, 2021

Modified on April 21, 2023

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