Analysis of The Caged Sky
I was brought to this place as a baby
Torn from my mother’s breast
My family’s screams I still hear in my dreams
With the sound of my mother’s last breath
Sentenced to life for my beauty
Kept here for the people to see
They only care about money and objects
And that’s what they’ve made out of me
For they made me an inmate, a prisoner
The sky now has bars in the way
As for my gentle old mother
Her hand made a perfect ashtray
| Scheme | AXXX AAXA BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1111111010 111101 111111011 101111011 10111110 11101011 11010110010 01111111 1111110100 01111001 11110110 0110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 451 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
This is about the awful murder and kidnapping of the African Lowland Chimpanzees during the 1990s. Before Dr Jane Goodall and her tireless work brought in Army Rangers to protect the remaining chimps from the poachers, most of these beautiful wild animals were sold to zoos and private ownership...or turned into ‘ objet d’art ‘ if too old or ornery.
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