Analysis of Leftover lads
I always find myself between the scale of being in the crowd and being a loner.
Oh, but what is there to judge?
When you are but one of the leftover lads?
In the library is when it is clear,
That the crowd is the cooked
While we're the leftovers.
Cooked and soaked ,
They never combine
The hot stays warm while the cold stays still.
Then why even she, the lonely schnook
Still stand within the tables's group?
was she not also apart of the leftover's group?
I eyed her with my furrowed glance
How she carelessly flipped another page,
Of her careless book, her careless stance
Standing independent between the cycle
Then now i think to myself,
What if none matters at all?
Dispose the need, stand up, not please
Being the leftovers is not a great deal.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKKLMLNOPQR |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110101110001010010 1111111 1111110101 001011111 101101 11010 101 11010 011110111 111010101 1101011 11110011011 11011101 1110010101 101010101 1001001010 111111 1111011 01011111 1001011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 761 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 591 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
About this poem
The central idea of the poem revolves around the speaker's contemplation of their place between being part of a crowd and being a loner. It explores the idea of feeling like a leftover or outsider in social situations and questions the importance of fitting in.
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