Analysis of WHICH ARE YOU

Debbie Middaugh AKA TURBO1904 1963 (San Diego, CA.)



 Are you a giver?
Or taker?
  Are you a mover?
Or a shaker.

Are you a lover?
Or fighter?
  Are you early to bed?
Or an all-nighter.

Are you the light?
Or the dark?
  Are you the bite?
Or the bark.

Are you up all night?
Or an early riser?
  Are you honest?
Or a bold-faced liar?

Are you wet?
Or dry?
  Are you sober?
Or High?

Are you the disease?
Or the cure?
  Are you polluted?
Or pure?

Are you loud?
Or quiet?
  Are you the pie?
Or the diet.

Are you soft?
Or hard.
  Are you relaxed?
Or on guard?

Are you organized?
Or scattered?
  Are you a bitch?
Or a bastard?

Are you for real?
Or fake.
  Are you a rat?
Or a snake?

Are you free?
Or in jail?
  Are you heaven?
Or hell?


Scheme AAAA AAXA BCBC BAXA XDAD XEXE XFDF XGXG XHXH XIXI XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (82%)
Metre 11010 110 11010 1010 11010 110 111011 11110 1101 101 1101 101 11111 111010 1110 101110 111 11 1110 11 11001 101 11010 11 111 110 1101 1010 111 11 1101 111 1110 110 1101 1010 1111 11 1101 101 111 101 1110 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 721
Words 195
Sentences 45
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 13

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Which person are you?

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Written on September 15, 2022

Submitted by Turbo1904 on September 16, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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