Analysis of The Prison
This prison I’ve created
is totally self made
This world I’ve evaded,
the fodder I trade
The reward is the punishment
in not taking part
The scars not to heal,
as I sit alone in the dark
The consensus, the polling,
all truth on the run
The shadows of misery,
— no day in the sun
The price of the membership,
an eternity black
With dealers and charlatans
all looking back
This prison I’ve created,
by rejection self made
This world I’ve evaded,
the fodder I trade
No verity in circumstance,
the horse trails the cart
These bars I look out from,
— a last lonely heart
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2015)
| Scheme | Ab CB xd xx xe xe xf xf Ab CB xd xd x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
| Metre | 1101010 110011 111010 01011 00110100 01101 01111 11101001 0010010 11101 011100 11001 011010 101001 1100100 1101 1101010 101011 111010 01011 1100010 01101 111111 01101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 626 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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