Analysis of Don't Run a Race You Can't Win ,Settle Down
We have fireworks in the fridge
And booze on the floor,
With maniacs like us
You can't find your way home.
We're all dealing with something
We're running from something
Maybe you're not
You don't look comfortable
Maybe you're ought to puke,
Fireworks dealing with frost and
I'm dealing with you.
You should've stayed home
We're about to call the cops ,
You're under age and messing with bulldogs .
I hope you get to breath and stop staring at my face,
We're alien we know
Go home weirdo
Go home before we'd have to clean your mess again
I look at you, and, I'm home
You don't belong anywhere and I know how that feels.
Scheme | ABCDEEFGHIJDKLMNNODP |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 111001 01101 11011 111111 1110110 110110 1011 1111000 101111 110110 11011 11011 1011101 110101011 1111110110111 110011 1110 110111111101 1111011 110110011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
About this poem
At most times I feel like I don't belong anywhere ,as a teenager that's how I've mostly felt. In this poem I picture myself finally fitting in, in the fakest of ways , I'm watching someone else also in the same predicament of trying to fit in and they haven't mastered the art of faking it till you make it so this is what I tell them : don't run a race you can't win ,settle down.
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Written on January 12, 2023
Submitted by celeaphile2 on March 27, 2023
Modified on March 27, 2023
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