Analysis of Glass House
In a world made of glass
Almost everything is fragile.
So you must remain pliable
Also flexible and agile.
As a pebble in a glass house,
From where the crossroads meet.
Will lead to instabilities
In the glass beneith our feet.
| Scheme | ABBBCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001111 110110 11101100 10100010 10100011 11011 1110100 0011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem at a time when i was lost and felt unfindable, writing was the quickest way of seeing and feeling hope for positive change in myself.
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Written on January 01, 2005
Submitted by TearsOnTheInside on April 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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