Analysis of Exam Fever
Hello, are you thinking something?
Are you anxious?
Are you looking out of the window?
Are you suffering from the exam fever?
The proctor enters the room
Mumbling a few swear words,
You learn something new, you're excited now
More than you ever were when reading your books.
That to and fro pacing of the proctor
Makes your heart beat and thump,
Your hands move, you look at the window
But your feet tie you back to the room.
There is no use of these futile exercises
There is no use even passing one of these,
You will remain the same as you're now
Until life becomes your teacher.
When I was a child and the exam season approached
My two hands shook, as if cold,
My head ached and my heart pounded endlessly
I thought I had a fever!
When I was a child like you
I used to be immersed in a sea of books,
Now I feel I'd learned nothing back then
And I know so much more now.
I know so much more about life as I lived it
I know more than from those petty school books,
I can explain it, you will not understand
That knowledge is not to be found in your textbooks.
How can they teach you anything anyway?
By cooping you into those four walls,
When your mind is flowing out of the window
Looking out for a quick escape?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111010 1110 111011010 11100100110 0101001 1000111 1110110101 11110011011 1101101010 111101 111111010 111111101 11111110100 11111010111 110101111 01101110 1110100011001 1111111 11101110100 1111010 1110111 11110100111 111111011 0111111 111110111111 1111111011 1101111101 11011111011 111111010 11101111 11111011010 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,184 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on July 08, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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