Analysis of The Fox Down in Bridge-Town
The wind outside is howling,
Like a dog left out in the rain,
Damp, despairing and dreadful,
A ruthlessness to restrain.
The whole house is shaking,
Like the storm is finally within,
Cast upon an uneasy turpitude,
Looks like God has seen me sin.
My home is a moral depravity,
Of a love that once died in vain,
Yet there’s a deep discrepancy,
Have I experienced enough shame?
My room here is a nightmare,
Once exasperated in lust,
Everything here is a terror,
This action was proclaimed unjust.
The fox down in Bridge-town,
Has found its way around.
The fox down in Bridge-town,
Has left without a sound.
Shadows bounce from the corners of bed,
In this resentment I call here,
Yet every time I find comfort,
Your daunting looks appear.
Obumbratio, Obumbratio,
On the place I’ve visited before,
Yet it paints a black picture,
Of a love wanting to restore.
Cry me a river,
And a stream and a lake and a boat,
For if you can’t swim,
You most definitely won't float.
There’s a spot where night meets day,
Where the moon is as useless as presumption,
It wreaks havoc and distortion,
Like capitalism does consumption.
The fox down in Bridge-town,
Has trouble finding its way home,
The fox down in Bridge-town,
Will leave before the gloam.
Is it twilight or crepuscule,
And will we find it's truth,
For nothing is inherently evil,
Not even a fox mixed up in youth.
Scheme | abcb adxd ebex xfgf HiHi xxxx xjgj gkxk xlll HmHm cncn |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (73%) |
Metre | 0111110 10111001 1010010 0100101 011110 101110001 101101010 1111111 1110100100 10111101 11010100 110100011 111101 1010001 1011010 11010101 011011 111101 011011 110101 11101011 01010111 110011110 110101 11 101110001 1110110 10110101 11010 001001001 11111 11100011 1011111 10111101010 11100010 110001010 011011 11010111 011011 110101 11111 011111 1101010010 110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,380 |
Words | 298 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
A poem about the struggles of growing up in a small town.
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