Analysis of Misbehaving

Riaan Smit 1988 (Windhoek)



I’ve been lead down the rabbit hole
Can't fire the fire burning in my soul

At the end of the line there’s a glowing light
I’m going in disguised as the night

You get what you give and I got what I gave
That’s what you get you when you misbehave

If the law don’t get me, then the bank will try
You can take my money cant take my pride

You get what you give and I got what I gave
That’s what you get you when you misbehave

There’s a man upstairs that wont be no slave
That’s what you get when you misbehave

You can lose your mind but don’t lose your head
That’s what you get when you misbehave


Scheme aa bb CC xx CC cC xC
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 11001010011 10110110101 110001101 11111011111 111111101 10111110111 1111101111 11111011111 111111101 1010111111 11111101 1111111111 11111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 628
Words 133
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Written on January 18, 2019

Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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