Analysis of This Prisoner
Hold tight to this prisoner,
And throw away the key.
Denied the very essence of existence,
Held unwilling, in captivity,
Shackled and chained,
And bound inside this blinding pain.
The torture continues endlessly,
Until I too, begin to go insane.
There is no Hope which remains,
And there is no desire to strive.
Each breath that I take is a battle in itself,
Just for me to stay alive.
Defeat stings bitterly
Upon the broken soul.
But it's the shame that conquers all in the end,
But how would I ever really know?
Dreams I once only dared to dream,
Have faded into the shadows and the pouring rain.
My memories disappear into the growing mist,
And I have no one but, myself to blame.
Now I have no place to turn and nowhere to go,
And suddenly I find that I am all alone.
I am stuck where I have been for so long now,
And all I really want, is to go Home.
But, I wonder, where is Home?
Surely it cannot be where I once already died.
The time for rebirth was near or so I was told,
But it turns out that too, was a lie.
Well the time for me has come,
Oh Glorious, Glorious Praise God Indeed.
See one can only be cut so many times,
Until they too, run out of blood in which to bleed.
So to the Angels, I so wearily cry,
Please set me free.
Release me from this life of pain,
Let this now become the end of me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 010101 01010101010 101000100 1001 01011101 010010100 0111011101 1111101 011101011 111111010001 1111101 011100 010101 11011101001 111110101 11110111 110010100101 110001010101 011111111 11111110111 010011111101 11111111111 0111011111 1110111 1011011110101 011011111111 111111101 1011111 11001001101 11110111101 011111110111 11010111001 1111 01111111 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,315 |
Words | 298 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,002 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 261 |
About this poem
living like a prisoner
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Written on February 02, 1992
Submitted by jessicalhepner on November 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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