Analysis of The Recidivist
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
Back again ,back home, back here were you belong.
Like a bar room singer who only knows one song.
Where are the chains that bind you to this path.
What blinds you to other options,
Is it environment or genetics the color of ones skin,
or something universal something deeper within.
Is it the past we can not escape,
the parent of our thought
Some call it karma so escape it they can not.
Perhaps life fills the home we make,
so adopt a different shape,
make it for your demons a place they can not stay.
Shape of yourself a temple, open it up to grace
and start a brand new day from a different living space.
Scheme | AABCDDEFGHEIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111110101 101110110111 1101111111 11111010 1101001010010111 110010101001 110111101 0101101 111101011111 01110111 10101001 111110011111 1101010101111 01011110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
About this poem
Is change possible ,i believe it is
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