Analysis of What Will You Do



What will you do
When they come at night
With wide-open mouths
Preparing to bite?
What will you do
When they arrive in the day
With flapping tongues
And insist they stay?
What will you do
When you know they weren't there;
It was just your imagination
Another temporary scare?


Scheme AbcbAdedAfgf
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 11111 11101 01011 1111 1101001 1101 00111 1111 1111101 11110010 0101001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 264
Words 50
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 220
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted by g_d on June 02, 2015

Modified on April 27, 2023

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