Analysis of Familiar Cry

JASON PRENTICE 1980 (St. Kitts & Nevis)



Speaking to myself… im lost,
Today I understand the cost,
Freedom… still is undefined,
Thought to be by us, the blind.
Mentally enslaved, still true,
Still are physically too,
Differ yet is still the same,
Fire from a different flame.
Speaking to myself, I tear,
Many see, not many care,
Many listen, never hear,
Many… but not any there
Shadow of what used to be,
I am everyone but me,
Used to see, but sight is gone,
Reaping fields… infested corn.
Stare into the darkness… know,
All that comes is meant to go,
Meant to grow, but bound to die,
Different pains… familiar cry..


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGFHHIJKKLL
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Metre 101111 0110101 101101 1111101 1000111 1110001 1011101 10101001 101111 1011101 1010101 1011101 111111 111011 1111111 1010101 1010101 1111111 1111111 10010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 587
Words 122
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 439
Words per stanza (avg) 104

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reflection..

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Written on August 13, 2020

Submitted by symbar on September 12, 2022

Modified on March 24, 2023

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