Analysis of Capital I



For years I wrote poetry with a lower case i
To show everyone how small I felt,
To proclaim my humility in a world of arrogance,
To display my meekness to God,
To show the words were as powerful as i,
and they were.
They were the softball sized cyst on my tailbone,
They were the granite, the planet,
if I fell--when I fell, lost gravity.
And so i was tiny, so was my voice
I read like I shook,
Looking for someone to save me,
Tell me the words were dope.
They could see through my absence
and frantically feel the despair,
because everything was there.
The kit and the kabooble,
The meow and the mix.


Scheme ABCDAEFGHIJHKCLLMN
Poetic Form
Metre 1111100101011 11101111 101101000011100 1011111 11010110011 010 100111111 10010010 1111111100 0111101111 11111 1011111 110101 1111110 010001001 011011 01001 001001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 584
Words 117
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 117
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 09, 2023

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