Analysis of A Need To Know
Hey, you there !
Who me ?
Yes, you.
Are you going somewhere ?
What business is it of yours ?
Pray, do tell, sire !
Do I have to have your consent ?
Is it your business of that,
where I am bound,
have been or went ?
I do not have to tell you !
In fact, I do not have to tell
you anything.
Not even the time.
Ask all you want,
answers you will not
get.
I do not care who you
are, what you are, as
my privacy,
I have a right to.
Privacy and my own
counsel,
I shall maintain.
I have done nothing wrong
and therefore I shall
not let you invade or
pressure my brain.
Freedom is priceless
and to be free as a bird
flies about the sky,
is the way I see it,
with no if's, buts,
there is no asking why.
So, I may be obstreperous,
aloof in my attitude,
but my principles and
rights in my life,
I shall not forego.
Call me what you will,
but my freedom is my
right and I shall adopt
the stance of a need
to know.
Yes, I need to know.
You, do not need to
know !
Scheme | ABCAXXDXXD CXXXXXXCXBC XXEXXXE FXGXXG FXXXHXGXXHHCH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11 11 11101 1101111 11110 11111101 1111011 1111 1111 1111111 01111111 110 11001 1111 10111 1 111111 11111 1100 11011 100011 10 1101 111101 0111 111011 1011 10110 0111101 10101 101111 1111 111101 11110100 010110 111000 1011 11101 11111 111011 101101 01101 11 11111 11111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 902 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 11, 7, 6, 13 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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