Analysis of The Palace Called A Prison Cell



This hard silence
Tattered with little sounds
It's a space, I'll call it "home"
Even if not much to roam
The locks- I don't need their consent
Nor loosing screws on over-vent
I make my way, each day I do
Escape route's near the binding glue


Scheme ABCCDDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 101101 1011111 1011111 01111101 11011101 11111111 01110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 233
Words 46
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 185
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on February 05, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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