Analysis of Homeless Song
Fire flies in branches
a storm growls down the road
darkness covers fences
everyone is home.
Humidity can cauterize
the oxygen we breathe
slowing our defenses
starting strange disease.
Living with some plywood
no addresses here
If you start with questions
you're going off the pier.
Home the cold darkness at night
truck stop in the day
got a little boy with me
hasn't learned to play.
Don't have much besides him
worth dollars anyway
if I make something tonight
I'll stay high a few days.
Oh we are frozen in time
now the blanket's stolen
ice crystals decorate
body staying swollen.
Every time we come to earth
I decide to go
changing up
It's just too hard my
guardian angel knows.
Back and forth they say
I'm so learning disabled
but when I look in my child's eyes
It's just another fable.
They held me down and laughed
that night I blocked it out
but when he screams I hold him
remembering a lot.
Let us go please out this place
someone come for us
vacation for the homeless starts
when selling body parts.
Scheme | AXAX BXAX XXXX CDXD EDCX XFXF XXXXX DXBX XXEX XXGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 011101 101010 1011 01001100 010011 1010010 10101 10111 11101 111110 110101 1011011 11001 1010111 10111 111011 11010 1111001 111011 1111001 10110 11010 101010 10011111 1111 101 11111 100101 10111 1110010 11110111 1101010 111101 111111 1111111 010001 1111111 1111 01010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,037 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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