Analysis of There's an Insect Watching me



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
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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