Analysis of What's your Name?
Belinda Richmond 1979 (Chicago)
They Call Me LIGHTBRIGHT because Red Bone was TAKEN!
They used to Call Me REAL because Everyone was FAKING!
They used to Call me “GIRRLLL!” because HOMEGIRL was too GHETTO!
They Call Me FLOWRITER these WORDS are so MELLOW!
They used to Call me CRAZY I Act like a LOONEY!
They used to call me “BETTY BOOP!” I look CARTOONY!
They used to Call Me “BABY!” but I ain’t your BABY BOO!
They used to Call Me SMARTY and I just took you to SCHOOL!
They used to call me NERDY but I ain’t your Average FOOL!
They used to call me CHICA I’m so Down Right COOL!
They used to call me EARTHY GIRL because I’m DOWN TO EARTH!
They used to call me MIRACLE DATE BACK TO MY FIRST BIRTH!
They used to call me SUPERGIRL I’m not your SUPERWOMAN!!
They used to call me AMAZON just call me WONDER WOMAN!
They used to call me LAZY BONED because I’m just so LAZY!
They used to call me CLOUDY because everything is HAZY!
They call me BETTY CROCKER but I ain’t your LITTLE DEBBIE!
They call me NEVER DO IT but
I’LL DO IT WHEN I’M READY!!!
They used to call me EVERYTHING and EVERTHING is RIGHT!!
They use to call me SIPERFLY and SUPERFLY is TIGHT!!
They use to call me “GO TO BED!” So on that Note:
So What’s your Name?
MY NAME IS LADY LUCK SO LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT!!! THAT’S RIGHT!!
By: Belinda Richmond
| Scheme | A X B B C A X D D D E E A A C C C X C F F X X F X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111110 1111110110110 1111110111110 1111111110 1111110111010 11111101111 11111101111101 11111100111111 111111011111001 11111111111 11111101011111 11111100111111 111111111100 11111101111010 111111010111110 11111100110110 111101011111010 11110111 1111110 11111100111 1111110111 111111111111 1011 1111011110100111 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 1,374 |
| Words | 314 |
| Sentences | 29 |
| Stanzas | 25 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
Note to Readers: I don't know where the heck I came up with this one but it has a Crazy Flow!! I guess my mind is just Crazy!! Here goes nothing!!
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Written on May 29, 2022
Submitted by belindar.65825 on May 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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