Analysis of What can you do?
Karolina Marszałkowska 1993 (Gdańsk)
Say it
Say how you hate this world
Admit
You'd rather live alone
Ask why
World is such a messed place
Avoid
Whole world's crazy chase
Commit
A sin and be spared
Pray
And be taught how you dared
Feel free
And die as you wish
Stay still
And be moved by a risk
Sing now
Melody no one can hear
Defeat
One person that everyone fear
Become
Someone you would despise
Curse
Those who were supposed to be wise
Break out
From the cage world built
Kill doubts
Which inside you were sealed
| Scheme | AXAX XBXB ACXC XXXX XXXX XDXD XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (43%) |
| Metre | 11 111111 01 110101 11 111011 01 11101 01 01011 1 011111 11 01111 11 011101 11 1001111 01 1101101 01 11101 1 11001111 11 10111 11 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 451 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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