Analysis of Life in an egg shell
I fell from the branch of life
Falling through the air
Till I crash land on the floor
As my yoke splatters everywhere
My shell, a broken barrier
Locked me in with no air
Till I broke free, I thought I was free
But there are cages everywhere
Life's a metaphor for dignity
But now I' broken on the floor
Crushed under the weigh
And I'm rotten to the core
Even if I had wings
They would be clipped at birth
Never was I able to fly
Or even tried to surf
I tried to ride the rails
To a road called nowhere
But it stopped at the bridge
That wasn't even there
In this cage called life
My soul is trapped forever more
The only time I was free
Was when I was a yoke splattered on the floor.
| Scheme | A B C B X B D B D C X C X X X X X B X B A C D C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 10101 1111101 111110 11010100 110111 111111111 1111010 101001100 11110101 11001 0110101 101111 111111 10111011 110111 111101 10111 111101 110101 01111 11110101 0101111 11110110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 658 |
| Words | 140 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 24 |
| 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 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on August 25, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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