Analysis of Bugbear
Take poetry away from me
And I'm a mail repeater
A broken tachometer
A man without wand to be.
Pull away the masks of me
And I'm an official suiter
A graduated mooter
Seeking his marble cementery
A gaby who is trotting
On his way to the afterglow
Punish human love and so
All gabies should be rotting.
| Scheme | ABBA ABBB CDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11000111 0101010 0101 0101111 1010111 01101010 01001 101101 0101110 1111010 1010101 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 290 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Translation by Ludy Bührs of his Dutch poem "Schrikbeeld".
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