Analysis of The Prison
This prison I’ve created…
totally self made
This world I’ve evaded
the fodder I trade
The reward is the punishment
for not taking part
Old scars not to heal
as I wait in the dark
The consensus, the polling,
all truth on the run
Their 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
my 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 10011 111010 01011 00110100 11101 11111 111001 0010010 11101 111100 11001 011010 101001 1100100 1101 1101010 101011 111010 01011 1100010 11101 111111 01101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 602 |
| Words | 107 |
| 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) | 8 |
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