Analysis of The Caged Bird



It's time
for the caged bird to sing,
as for she is closed,
in not a soundproof cage.
She can't fly,
but she can sing,
can be heard,
for her closed in rage.

She sees a barrier, a limit, a wall,
nothing between the grilles.
She is smaller, in the cage that is small,
her beak is taped closed, she feels.

In all this time she learned:
can do nothing, she is locked.
She didn't think she was heard
when with singing voice, she talked.


Scheme XAXBXACB DEDE XXCX
Poetic Form
Metre 11 101111 11111 01011 111 1111 111 10101 11010001001 100101 1110001111 0111111 011111 1110111 1101111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 434
Words 100
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

The popularity of the mindset that we, creatures, humans, women, young girls can't talk, or aren't heard, simply because of the illusion we are raised to believe in, that our lives are our homes, and even if they are cages they are our safety and not our freedom as they should be, and we don't think we should talk because we think we can't and we think we can't simply cause we are told we shouldn't.

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Written on September 26, 2022

Submitted by hadjiskaj on September 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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