#if you wanted this to scan accurately as mr-brightside-meter then it would work slightly better to add more line breaks
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x x / x x / x x / x x /
Kinda wan | na be kissed | kinda wan | na be stabbed
x x / x x / x x / x x /
And he's hav | ing a smoke | and she's tak | ing a drag
anapestic tetrameter
Kinda wanna be kissed kinda wanna be stabbed
#WITH SOME CAVEATS. here follow the caveats#if you just scan this as poetry and you've never heard mr brightside#then it's anapests. which is how i've scanned it here#poetically speaking thats commonly a humorous meter with a very regular driving impetus/momentum#which works well here bc a. stops the repetition of the 'kindas' and the 'and's from weighing this poem down or dragging#and b. bc it's so overt noticeably metrical it's not Comic per se but it does rlly bring out the ironic humour in the first line#BUT. anyway. music behaves differently to poetry you can fit the words into a different rhythmical framework and that chnages the stress#mr brightside doesnt feel like anapestic tetrameter when you hear it#because anapests fall into three naturally. trisyllabic foot. but mr brightside is written in four#if you wanted this to scan accurately as mr-brightside-meter then it would work slightly better to add more line breaks#and split this up into dimeter#because that allows you to take a slightly longer moment between each half and better approximate the rests#orrrr you need some way of indicating the rests via the scansion: x x / x x / (x x) & then you rlly start to stray into music notation#long tags!!! oh well!!#thanks for the @!#anapestic#tetrameter#dimeter
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