Analysis of Boy of [Blank]
If this reflects me and you
It was not meant to be wondered on
It was meant to be the natural state
The thorax of the beetle
Lifting its wings and spurting the venom
I’m not the natural artist you thought I was
It’s taken the sweat of lakes for me to be so bad
Blood does not spill easily
But is taken with the bone marrow
And is crushed when you need it to be
When you go through what I’ve gone through
Enduring a millennia of days wasted
Wishing it was all reversed for you
Then the ropes and the knots, the music and the lyrics
The friends and the walkers and the runaways
It all pieces together
And you have built a boy, not just of flesh
Not of fiber or cells or the natural form
But of cobwebs and meshed web and little lies
False beliefs and built up idols and towering walls
If you can understand this desire for truth
It is not naturally a part of me
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHAJAKLMNOPQRH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101 111111101 1111101001 0101010 1011010010 110100101111 1100111111111 1111100 111010110 011111111 11111111 010001001110 101110111 1010010100010 0100100010 1110010 0111011111 111011101001 1110110101 1010111001001 11101101011 11110000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 865 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 682 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 173 |
About this poem
A poem about trying to figure out who I am.
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