Analysis of All Things Not Needed

Steven Bowman 1997 (Voorhees Township, NJ)



When you first started cursing,
You’ve got soap in your mouth.
They’d say there’s no swearing,
They’d ground you for a month.

Parents that need their children,
Trying to stop any type of curses.
When you’re young, all-forgiving,
Just don’t swear, see it all works.

I think of this as a really bad thing,
Swearing is a thing, it’s not a need.
Just don’t rap about all drug killing,
Don’t be this and do not be greedy
.
I need the world to be so perfectly,
It’s already filled with the pollutions.
Our future children, killing so sadly,
We really need this for constitutions.


Scheme AXAX XBAX AXAC CBCX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010 111011 111110 111101 1011110 1011101110 1111010 1111111 1111101011 101011101 111011110 111011110 1 1101111100 10101101 10101010110 110111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 595
Words 120
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 9
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 35

About this poem

This poem is from 2015.

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Written on 2015

Submitted by stevenbowman319 on May 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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