Analysis of Growing Out of a Lotus
A foot tied by a Chinese shoe
to become the shape of a lotus flower
My heart tied by a barbed wire of fear
To become a warning of world’s dangers
My heart is a shape of nothing
And it grew to like it this way
Sometimes it still tries to show me it is alive
and the thorns of distrust and sarcasm
put it back into shape.
The foot liberated from ties and bandages
Doesn’t feel free
It screams of agony and terror
Not yet knowing
That the ecstasy of running
is worth the pain
of stretching
tormented ligaments
out
on the earth.
Scheme | XA XX BX XXX XX A B BXBXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110011 10101101010 1111011011 1010101110 11101110 01111111 011111111101 001101010 111011 01100110100 111 111100010 1110 10100110 1101 110 10100 1 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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