Analysis of RAP

Adheesha Gunathilaka 2008 (kaluthara)



Never waver even if you escape
People live   knowing about the world

Nobody knows this me

Not even of Sinhalese blood

I have two friends who eat one rice

I don't have too many desires


Scheme XX X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101101 101100101 1111 1101011 11111111 111110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 191
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 7

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