Analysis of Thoughts in Jail
Katharine Rolston Fisher 1871 (North Adams, Massachusett) – 1950 (Westborough, Massachusetts)
Prisoners are we,
American citizens imprisoned
For daring in the name of Democracy
To protest against the continued denial
Of the right of self-government
To twenty millions of the American people.
We lie in a dungeon
Long ago abandoned and condemned,
Just as politically we are held
Imprisoned in a subjection
Abandoned and condemned
By every other nation of English speech and spirit.
Painfully raising my head,
I look down the long row
Of gray-blanketed heaps.
Under every heap a woman,
Weak, sick, but determined,
Twenty gray fortresses of determination.
Scheme | ABACXC DEXDEX XXXDBD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011 0100100010 11000110100 11010010010 10111100 1101010010010 110010 101010001 1101000111 010001 010001 110010101101010 1001011 111011 111001 101001010 111010 10110010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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