Analysis of Do I Need A New Set Of Teeth
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
Do I Need A New Set Of Teeth
I know I have feelings for you
Yet I’m not quite sure what they are
I feel as if I could love you
Then there’s times I feel it’s not true
It seems we both think alike
And we read each other like books
Kind of like fusion and fission
I guess you might probably say
Maybe that is why I am smitten
By the very words that you speak
Although I am with another
I never stop thinking of you
Don’t you think I should just let her
Stay with her psychic friends network
And her group of her foodie friends
With all their spas and hit tubs
So please let me know what you think
Do I need a new set of teeth
P.s.Like I have always told you
I can’t understand your words
That you speak to me woman
Of all those places you’ve been
And all those ghosts you have seen
Edwin Tanguma 08/25/2002
| Scheme | A bxbbxxcxcxdbdxxxxA bxcxx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101111 11111011 11111111 11111111 11111111 1111101 01111011 11110010 11111001 101111110 10101111 1111010 11011011 11111110 1101011 00110101 1111011 11111111 11101111 111111 110111 1111110 1111011 0111111 10010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 821 |
| Words | 171 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 18, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
About this poem
Another one from the dark years collection…I don’t know what else there is that I can say…
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