Analysis of My Babysitter Raped Me



When I was just a boy
I had this dream of aliens and green things
My mother wasn't home
She had to work so my sisters and I could eat
She hired a babysitter
In her teens
She was mean and

My, My, My Ba- Babysitter raped me
My, My, My Ba- Babysitter raped me
She bit me on the ear
She licked me oh so dear
But, she raped me

And then my mother beat me
And then I grew too big. see?
I lived inside a bubble of my dreams
And then I learned of airplanes
b*llsh*t!, With their war games
That's when I took the only way to see

and that was
My, My, My, Ba-Babysitter raped me
My, My, My, Ba-Babysitter raped me
She took me to the sea
Left me with broken dreams
'Cause she raped me
         and that's not funny

My babysitter raped me
And now I've learned to live with broken bones
My babysitter raped me
I've been the king, I was the pawn, I'm clean
When my big sister teased me
It could have been a daydream
But what I know, life's been mean to me

and I'm tellin' ya
My, My, My Ba-Babysitter raped me
My, My, My Ba-Babysitter raped me
She bit me in the ear
She licked me oh so dear
And she raped me

I told my mommy Dee
About her new employee
That babysitter worked this week for free
She took off to Missouri
Forgot to say goodbye to me
She can live there
I can live with me

but I don't know why
My, My, My Ba-Babysitter raped me
My, My, My Ba-Babysitter raped me
Why oh why oh me
Spank me spank me please
'Cause my babysitter raped me
ooooooooh she raped me


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Poetic Form
Metre 111101 11111100011 110101 111111100111 1100100 001 1110 111110011 111110011 111101 111111 1111 0111011 0111111 1101010111 0111110 1111111 1111010111 011 111110011 111110011 111101 111101 1111 01110 110011 0111111101 110011 1101110111 1111011 111101 111111111 0111 111110011 111110011 111001 111111 0111 111101 0101010 110011111 1111010 0111111 1111 11111 11111 111110011 111110011 11111 11111 1110011 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,399
Words 298
Sentences 4
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 7, 5, 6, 7, 7, 6, 7, 7
Lines Amount 52
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted on September 06, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:32 min read
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David Ehrgott

There are two types of words in the english language. A: the written word and B: the spoken word. There once was a time that they mirrored each other. Unfortunately, the higher learning schools today concentrate on what makes them the most money. Which is: professional sports learning. Thus, destroying what once was a proper education. Since the spoken word will now never reflect the written word, we must change the written word to reflect the spoken word. Because people just don't talk like dat no mo'. more…

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