Analysis of Make My Day



"Make my day" I tell myself: no one lives in my brain but me.
The greatest view is insight. Selection is destiny.

Actions always boomerang: my decisions have consequence.
Only I can change my mind, befitting the circumstance.

People or outside events can not pacify or enrage.
I, alone, give them power my emotions to engage.

Others may sign my paycheck but I am always my own boss.
Responsible behavior produces my gain or loss.

Cloudy days obscure the "blue," yet there is never a gray sky.
Attitudes change everything, seeing more than meets the eye.

My beliefs become my truth: they may be wrongheaded desire.
The actual reality could ironically inspire.

Improving me is my work requiring daily diligence.
A profound introspection will demand intelligence.

The cure is found in the cause: a reaction to stimuli.
If I can't change things in fact I can alter my reply.


Scheme AA BX CC XX DD XX BB DD
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111101111 0101110101100 1011010101100 1011111010010 10111011110101 10111101010101 1011111111111 01000100101111 101010111110011 101101011101 101011111110010 0100101010001 0101111010010100 0010101010100 01110010010110 11111011110101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 855
Words 150
Sentences 17
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

Professor, therapist, author and poet. more…

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