Analysis of The Man Inside My Head
The man inside my head keeps telling me
Some things are not the way they ought to be.
He says I should be happy with my life,
Instead of courting misery and strife.
I say to him, that's just the way things are;
That happiness is not kept in a jar.
He tells me that I worry far too much
About missed opportunities, and such.
I really wish, deep down, that I could be
As nonchalant and self-possessed as he.
Big niggles nag and gnaw inside my mind;
I guess I've always been the anxious kind.
The man inside my head has no such woes;
The answer to all things he thinks he knows!
If only life were simple, like he says,
I'd have mine figured out in two short days!
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2018
| Scheme | AABB CCDD AAEE FFXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101111101 1111011111 1111110111 0111010001 1111110111 1100111001 1111110111 011010001 1101111111 101010111 111010111 111110101 0101111111 0101111111 1101010111 1111010111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 690 |
| Words | 137 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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