Analysis of Trapped
Belinda Richmond 1979 (Chicago)
“Help Me!” “For I am Trapped”
I feel like I am trapped between the
Beginning and the End,
The Start and the Finish,
The Up’s and Down’s
Like a Fly in a Venus Fly Trap,
Like a Mouse in a Mouse Trap.
East, West, North, and South,
I don’t know which way I should get out.
Like a maze I can’t get out,
I am trapped between the walls of doubt.
I am trapped between the walls of confusion
Everything to me seems like an illusion.
I reach out and touch to see if you are real
My life, my problems, and worries are
Things I just have to deal.
I am trapped between the walls of depression
It might be rough now but remember these are
I am trapped between the walls of Left and Right,
We ALL go through things which is part of Life,
But as I push forward I will reach the Light.
I am trapped between the walls of worry,
I can see the end but it seems so blurry.
So I blink my eyes and look once again,
With Patience and Guidance I made it to the End.
I am NO Longer Trapped because I am FREE,
It took patience and will and to only BELIEVE.
Like a Butterfly that flutters in the wind,
Like an Eagle that soars from end to end
Like the Sea Creatures swimming in the sea, and
The Civilization of people which is you and me,
We are Free to Be.
By: Belinda Richmond
Date: Unknown
Scheme | X X A X X B B X C C C D D E F E D F G X G H H X A H X X A I H H IX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111111010 010001 010010 0101 101001011 1010011 11101 111111111 1011111 111010111 11101011010 1011111010 11101111111 111100101 111111 11101011010 11111101011 11101011101 1111111111 11111011101 1110101110 11101111110 1111101101 110010111101 11110101111 111001011001 1010110001 1110111111 10110100010 0001011011101 11111 101010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,331 |
Words | 319 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 33 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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