Analysis of The Conveyor Belt
Faylee Goren 2008 (Toronto)
Did you ever hear
That the losers and outcasts,
Become billionaires?
Who wrote that fable anyways?
Hoping that their ink would stain?
On this conveyor belt of a world,
The good ones become doctors and lawyers
With scholarships and degrees
Throwing pennies into the bucket of a poor man.
They didn’t have enough pockets for their change.
The good ones don’t question.
Happily married with 3 kids.
Not that they’re in love.
They’re just a safety net.
What each other are supposed to do.
Not the kind of fate that’s written in this stars.
The kind that’s written in prenups.
Anyways, what would they think?
Not married by 28?
The good ones,
Will never feel a single thing
For as long as they shall live.
Like a permanent smile sewn on their face
When water falls out of their eyes,
They must claim to be a waterfall.
Oh, forever dolls on a conveyor belt.
I am only 14 years old but I know more
Then the 40 year olds who are scared to make a wrong move.
So scared of the society that's destined to come after you.
They fill the brains with formulas,
Follow them all step by step.
So they don't get any ideas,
Ideas are so dangerous to them.
They’ll fit you to the rest
They’ll open your head
Fill it with the right ideas.
Kill that flame.
And “they” is not the man,
Not the woman.
It’s the people too scared
To step out of that all too narrow line;
Not even by the skinny heel of their redbottoms.
Or else what?
They’ll be the screw ups.
The artists and musicians
Living on a dime
But making poetry
And skipping through dark cafes
Hoping to find someone who thinks the same.
Scheme | XAXBX XXXCX DXXXEXAXX FXXXXXX XXEGXGX XXGH CDXXAXXFXXBH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 101001 0101 1111010 1011111 110101101 0110110010 110001 1010010101011 1110110111 011110 1001011 11101 110101 111010111 10111110011 0111001 101111 1101 011 11010101 1111111 1010011111 11011111 11111010 10101100101 1110111111 101111111011 1110010011011101 11011100 1011111 111110010 0101110011 111101 11011 11101010 111 011101 1010 101011 1111111101 11010101111 111 11011 0100010 10101 110100 010111 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,643 |
Words | 348 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 9, 7, 7, 4, 12 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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