Analysis of I'm in Charge Here, so Allow me to give it to Myself Please?
Scott Michael Potter 1966 (Grand Rapids, MI)
Well, I thought, pleasantly, I'm in charge here…
I used to be so proud of how in charge of things
I actually was, that I'd charge admission
Just so's others wouldn’t fall into remission
Through missing my emissions…
See, I was so in charge, I thought nothing'd interfere,
Certainly no one'd dare try to take charge of things,
Not while I ruled the roost,
Not from me in my spruced
Up outfits - was I juiced!
It wasn't much longer, after another loud dress fear,
'Fore the gentlemen over there, took charge of things.
And had audacity to charge me admission
Just so's I couldn't leave and go in remission
From missing their emissions…
Now I don't mind much, having to adhere…
And pride rattles a cranium corner with things,
That seem like cocks at roost,
Amid rooms all down spruced,
I want me to be juiced!
[first stanza of] Greyhound and New York Grass
Oh, but Walt, you wrote – oh how you wrote,
When you wrote, writing where you wrote,
You wrote of Grass, of states, and of love you wrote,
Leaving some questioning why you wrote what you wrote
And then how to write like you wrote.
[excerpt from stanza seven]
Thither words turn sour, sourness stamps tongue,
Twisting lemony citrus squirts of other words,
Yet not uttered, the wordy future soured expositions lay resting,
For the moment silent, not born of saliva surrounding tongues,
Yet unborn from the spittle longing to launch them,...
Scheme | XABBC DAEEE DABBC DAEEE XFFFFFBXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001011 111111110111 11001111010 11101101010 1101010 11110111101 100111111111 111101 111011 11111 11011010010111 101001011111 010100111010 111101010010 1101010 1111110101 011001001011 111111 011111 111111 110110111 111111111 11110111 11111101111 101100111111 01111111 1011010 11110111 1011011101 11100101010010110 1010101110100101 111101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,408 |
Words | 269 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 12 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
About this poem
Exegesis? Nah This is a performance piece, and Oh boy do I get JUICED when performing it!!! It has repeats and repetitions and moments for me to go all improv and impromptu so it is a never the same piece twice performed—not evuh, nevuh evuh
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Written on February 18, 2022
Submitted by ScottMPotter on May 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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