Analysis of Drugged Along



I took the drug for all it's worth
and talked the drug from death to birth
And wondered why I walked the walk
of drugged for mice and not for Earth

And told myself what I would know
when all who others said I'm stoned
Told death for me when I had known
what all along was I to doned

And all I thought was left to tone
when only those who celebrate
Left me to live without a date
of what it was to concentrate

For when I learned what I had done
my lips were sealed and I was one
With what I'd learned from other's tongue
of lost for now and cost for stun

That soon I learned to be as best
what all would say had been a test
Of freedom come for those too late
and I not sure just how to gait

That even I was saved by dumb
when others left me to succumb
So I could see that I was led
in failing all with honest gum

And I could say I had belonged
to what was right and got along
To take what I gave failing grade
to all mankind who changed as wrong


Scheme AAXA XBCB CDDD EEXE FFDD GGXG XHXH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (43%)
Metre 11011111 01011111 01011101 11110111 0111111 11110111 11111111 11011111 01111111 1101110 11110101 1111110 11111111 11010111 11111101 11110111 11111111 11111101 11011111 01111111 11011111 11011101 11111111 01011101 01111101 11110101 11111101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 950
Words 209
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Written on March 30, 2022

Submitted by Poetbird on March 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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