Analysis of Build me up
Build me up,
tear me down,
Say I am,
what you are not,
be who I want you to be,
or else we are not free,
free at last,
not completely free,
chained up to a wall,
while she holds a knife to my neck,
while he is on the ground bleeding to death,
three knives on the floor,
with names written in blood on the wall, ones lisha, twos Keisha and threes misha, all I did with their blood on the wall,
marbles coming down the hall,
sleeping soundly in her bed,
with the monster under her bed,
mirror face to her bed,
shadows wishing she was dead,
mother watching her sleep,
wishing her sweet dreams,
sisters hiding in the closet,
with a knife in her hand,
her brother in the basement,
with knife in his neck,
still alive wishing you was dead,
trembling while taking out the knife,
he died just last night.
Scheme | ABCDEEFEGHIJGGKKKKLMNOPHKQR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 111 111 1111 1111111 111111 111 10101 11101 11101111 1111011011 11101 11100110111110110111111101 1010101 1010001 10101001 101101 110111 101001 10011 10100010 101001 0100010 11011 10110111 100110101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 612 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
About this poem
I made this poem because I'm bored.
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Written on November 27, 2022
Submitted by ariforr3 on November 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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