Analysis of The Change
Joe was a boy that had zero fears
He would jump from the roof to pool with his peers,
Skate fast down the hill so till the wind gave him tears,
I even heard he once juggled spears
He was a boy who just didn't care
He was brave or dumb whichever one you fair
He even threw stones at houses, I saw him, I swear
He could stare holes in your chest with that menacing and glare
But out of the blue he started to change
No longer was he weird no longer was he deranged
There was no banging at night which to me was strange
But I soon came to love this noisy-kid-exchange
One day as I tried to go sleep
I heard a distant shout, "Absorption complete"
Opened my curtain and saw Joe standing in the street
With black ooze rolling down his face as he weeps
"What can I do" I didn't know
I opened my door and left real slow
I couldn't tell whether he was a friend or foe
Until I looked him in the eyes and saw no Joe.
Scheme | AAXA BBBB CXCC XDDX EEEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) |
Metre | 110111101 11110111111 111011101111 110111101 110111101 11111010111 1101111011111 11110111110001 1110111011 1101111101101 111101111111 111111110101 11111111 11010101001 1011001110001 11110111111 11111101 110110111 110110110111 011110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 909 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
This is going to be a recurring theme, because I really want to make a fleshed out story with this
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Written on February 06, 2022
Submitted by Drastic on February 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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