Analysis of A sad waste of Childhood
The audience is stern and hides utter amazement
as she floats gracefully on her baby pink cloud of lace and ultra plush padding.
Her callased toes flex and push against one hundred pounds of gruesome human pressure
leaving her frail translucent frame stuck in the tension-filled air
above her decision block of a stage.
The white lights directly above
leave her temporarily blinded,
flailing around like a wounded bird.
The judges hardened faces snatch their cruel pens
to only crush the long lived dream of yet another anorexic teenage ballerina with a passion.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0100110110010 11110010101111010110 0111010111011101010 100101011001011 0100101101 01101001 10010010 100110101 010101011101 110101111101001010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on March 09, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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