Analysis of Coming of Age
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Where is your heart?
You who are raised on love
resistant to the stains of hatred and brutality
able to shake off
of those who
seeking to paint their crimes
upon your spirit-soul
Those
whose views
are based upon
slight of hand
and demands
that you
to a higher standard
than
Those
whose views
cast shade on every step of progress
made to the process
those
whose vanity
those
who are not yet
yet
not, yet
come of age
we must embrace
who we are
all... of it
abandon
the false pride
our defense
against
of who we are
all
of us
must
first strip away
the layers of clay
of a mask
we entertain ourselves with
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111111 01010111000100 10111 111 101111 011101 1 11 1101 111 001 11 101010 1 1 11 111100111 1101 1 1100 1 1111 1 11 111 1101 111 111 010 011 1001 01 1111 1 11 1 1101 01011 101 1010011 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 870 |
| Words | 219 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 31 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 42 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 16 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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