Analysis of The Intruder
Mental illness 1948 (London)
I woke up this morning
to an intruder in my mind
An alien force
that denied my contentment
that enveloped and smothered
my happiness due to my gathering
good fortune.
An intruder, unwelcome in my mind
A squatter throwing out my good feelings
and replacing them with sadness
for no reason.
I succumb; my good thoughts are no match
for the power of no. Resistance is futile
I am grown mad.
| Scheme | ABCDEAFBGHFIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 11010011 11001 1011010 1010010 1100111100 110 1010010011 0101011110 00101110 1110 101111111 101011010110 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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