Analysis of Higher Than School
Fourteen entering the great unknown
still not mature or fully grown
the age of total awareness
fault finding, treatment of unfairness
camouflaged movement in the halls
ditching days, with parental home calls
hoping the years would accelerate
lucky to marry, your high school mate
teachers edition, pass the class
dorks, the popular will harass
rights of passage finding your place
shied away from homework, not to embrace
dropouts with some other priority
none of us could deal with authority
dean of supervision rap sheet
over the shoulder tests, to cheat
dress codes created by cliques
attitudes with their own mix
exiting breath of fresh air
real world challenges, did you prepare?
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111000101 11011101 01110010 110101010 1010001 101101011 10011010 101101111 10010101 10100101 11101011 101111101 111100100 1111110100 1101011 10010111 1101011 101111 1001111 111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 684 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 565 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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