Analysis of Stage Crew
The sound of screws clicking near
The best sound I’ll ever hear
The crinkle of that tarp
Unfolding in a beautiful arc
Pop the cap
Right of the bat
We start making the detailed map
Brush is swiping
Oh, No!
Let’s start wiping
The grind of a saw
As we all watch in awe
Show nights here
Now let’s clear
This all up
You might be confused and that’s ok
What I say next, we’ll it might just be the best
Now here’s the story
Of MB’s glory
We weren’t told when to be bold
To run out in front of the crowd
To do our bows
We had never been asked to bow before
So we were all so excited
But keep in mind we were never invited
So we had no clue
How on earth it possibly blew
It started when I was told to go
Now I didn’t want to be late
Or at least make one single mistake
So I ran out with pride and glee
But little did I know what was waiting for me
A false alarm I hear to late
And that how I made the first mistake
I run back heart racing
ASM pacing
My face red and very flustered
But don’t worry afterwords we got some custard
They whisper go go go
So I start to glow glow glow
As we go out we run the show
People clapping everywhere
Well if that didn’t give you a scare
What I say next will make you pull our your hair
Make you grip your seats in anticipation
Maybe you’ll be careful next time
That anyone starts to pull the blind
When we were up there
I joked around to share
The embarrassment that I once held
Because it finally broke it’s shell
But just before I could finish my words
MB goes to make her speech
Now after this we named a cheese curd
Stuffed animal after her speech
It was eris don’t you see
The same one who did it to me
But give her some grace
Because in the face
Of stress she just was doing her job
She shut the curtains like she was told
But she just broke the mold
Not just of being the ASM
oh no she was human that single day
We screamed at her loudly so she could hear
But sadly she never lent an ear
She never heard our cries that day
But she would in her dreams oh she may
She hit MB with those curtains hard
They hit their mark don’t you see
How MB got jarred
It was too much fun for me
Non stop laughing
As people start clapping
We break formation to help out
But luckily MB just gave a quick shout
She was saved that amazing day
Spared by eris but she may
Strike once again
She now lives down in history
As we remember when she swore she
Would tell the story
Of MB’s glory
Now that you know the full story
Ask around about MB’s glory
We made a tradition
And we went on a mission
To name a custard toy after her
Called Showstopper MB
We’ll pass it down as a tradition
A brand new addition in our stage crew family
I’ve made that and the book of autographs you see
How that eris could be me
It’s my last year just like her
I just hope that I am not a burr
In someone’s hair, to make a mistake
Oh but that could be my fate
Each year someone will be picked and deemed worthy
To guard the book it will be kept in Sadie’s nook
Every show we will write
Sign your name and join the fight
Everyone wants the book
Shall I give it to a 7th grader
Or should I give it to a 6th grader
To learn the ways of stage crew
Well we’ll find out just one day
And that’s when I’ll finally say
Anna that’s you before the show
Or maybe it’s Kate or Kaitlyn or Sadie
Or maybe a few more
I just have to settle score
If people misbehave
Then they will have to give chase
I won’t let them have the book
They’ll have to take it as a crook
As for showstopper MB
we will vote and you will see
Who deserves the biggest prize
The biggest honor
And that’s the story
Of MB’s glory
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Metre | 0111101 0111101 01111 010001001 101 1101 11100011 1110 11 1110 01101 111101 111 111 111 111010111 11111111101 11010 1110 1111111 11101101 11101 1110111101 11011010 11011010010 11111 11111001 110111111 1111111 111111001 11111101 110111111011 01011111 011110101 111110 110 11101010 1110111110 110111 1111111 11111101 101010 11111101 111111111011 1111100010 10111011 11011101 11011 110111 001001111 011100111 1101111011 111101 110111011 11001001 111111 01111111 11011 01001 111111001 110101111 111101 1111001 1111101101 1110101111 110110111 110110111 111001111 11111101 1111111 1111 1111111 1110 110110 11010111 1100111011 11110101 111111 1101 11110100 110101111 11010 1110 11110110 10101110 110010 0111010 110101100 111 111110010 01101001011100 11100111011 111111 1111110 111111101 01111001 1111111 1111110110 11011111011 1001111 1110101 10101 1111101110 11111101110 1101111 1111111 01111001 10110101 1101111110 110011 1111101 11001 1111111 1111101 11111101 1111 1110111 1010101 01010 01010 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 3,671 |
Words | 781 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 30 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 5, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 8, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 121 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
It’s about a stage crew experience that happened to me last year during a play my school did called radium girls. (Great Play, and movie too!)
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Written on November 15, 2021
Submitted by FaithfulServent on November 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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