Analysis of When Things Got Weird
Something in the air smelt weird,
It wasn't the usual crisp and cool!
I'd walked the path a hundred times,
No one could take me for a fool!
And there it was, I'd found the flaw.
The horror movie I never saw,
The scene from my worst nightmare,
It sounds crazy-I am aware!
Behind the trees, in the sunlit corner,
I saw the shadow of a bear,
Yet, bear it wasn't, I was so sure,
To go closer, I would not dare.
My eyes were playing tricks on me!
I continued to stand and stare!
The shadow moved, all big and grey,
From the sunlit corner into the dark,
I saw an injured eagle fly that way,
and heard a fierce rabid bark!
The world stood still and stared with me,
My good sense begged of me to flee,
Then a lizard fell onto my head,
and I could tell that it was dead.
My brain told me to run away,
but my feeble legs-they would not go.
And then I felt an icy trickle
go creeping along so bold and slow!
Down my still and trembling fingers,
and dripping steadily to my toe,
I did not stop to wonder what,
was flowing down my freezing nose,
I had no wild and foolish desire,
to explore my favourite path some more,
I fled into familiar space,
Like I had run the fastest race,
People stopped to watch me run,
They seemed to enjoy all the fun.
Some even cheered as I ran on,
Till much long after I was gone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1000111 1100100101 11010101 11111101 01111101 010101101 011111 11101101 010100110 1101101 111101111 11101111 11010111 10101101 0111101 101100101 1111010111 0101101 01110111 11111111 101011011 01111111 11111101 111011111 011111010 110011101 111010010 010100111 11111101 11011101 1111010010 10111111 11010101 11110101 1011111 11101101 11011111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,299 |
Words | 297 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 38 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 989 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 260 |
About this poem
He loves to walk in the woods. But something seems wrong.
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