Analysis of Free Bird
Vaishnavi 2008 (Kanpur Nagar)
How sad could she be?
She didn't have to do that.
She didn't need to hang or cut.
Building standing with cracked bricks,
And a lost thief.
Would it have been so tough?
It must have been though,
For she succumbed to death
But, death embraced her.
Friends couldn't forgive themselves.
Laughing felt like a sin.
How couldn't they notice?
The terror inside her and raging menace.
"How could she do that?",her mother asks.
"I can't bear her name anymore.
She wasn't selfish like the one lying in front of me.
She isn't my blood. She isn't me.",the father said.
Everyone didn't know when to stop to weep.
How could you, when without her you can't even sleep?
They think, that they are to blame,
For they became blind and didn't notice,
How they lost the girl,
Who wasn't anyone's to claim.
She wasn't the only one who stopped breathing.
She wasn't the only one whose heart stopped beating.
She wasn't the only one dying.
She isn't the only one dead.
| Scheme | A X X X X X X X X X X B B X X A C D D E B X E F F F C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1101111 11011111 1010111 0011 111111 11111 110111 11010 1100101 101101 110110 01001001010 11111101 1110101 11010101100111 110111101101 1010111111 111101011101 1111111 1101101010 11101 1101011 11001011110 110010111110 110010110 11001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,068 |
| Words | 246 |
| Sentences | 26 |
| Stanzas | 27 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
This poem is about how a person's family and friends are affected when they decide to do the most dreaded thing, kill themselves. Suicide. This is not only a poem but a short tale of how the people who were with the girl who now is a free bird are absolutely devastated with her death.
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Written on July 19, 2022
Submitted by vaishnavis.52918 on July 31, 2022
Modified on April 27, 2023
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