Analysis of Dying To Be Free
We have nothing to agree about,
there is no common ground
You clinging hard to all excuse
and me to reasons found
Thirty-five years and nothing’s changed,
as you relive the past
Our blood runs thin, our names the same,
you feast on what I fast
With history gone, there’s nothing shared
except to disagree
You hanging on to a dying past,
me, dying to be free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101 111101 11011101 011101 10110101 110101 1011110101 111111 110011101 011001 110110101 110111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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