Analysis of There's an Insect Watching me
Austin Anderson 2007 (Alabama)
In my slumber
There is an insect
Whose body is that of a mantis
And head of a human
It is six feet tall
Rather tall indeed
In my slumber
It watches
It stares for hours and hours
And disappears in my wake
Does it want to help me or harm me?
That I do not know
In my slumber
The insect watches
Standing over my bedside
Never moving, always still
We all have an insect
That watches us
In our slumber
Scheme | AbcdefAghijkAglmbna |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110 1111 110111010 011010 11111 10101 0110 110 11110010 001011 111111111 11111 0110 0110 101011 101011 11111 1101 01010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
About this poem
A poem about someone who has Schizophrenia and believes an insect is watching him sleep.
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Written on February 08, 2022
Submitted by austin.anderson on February 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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