Analysis of City by the Sea (Welcome to Cape Town)
I’m sitting on this mountain top
Mellow as can be
Looking over the point where the two oceans meet
And as I walk around and I see the town
You know she’s alive
Hustling and bustling with people
All trying to get by to survive
These city lights they speak to me they show what its like to be free
And from what I’ve seen and where I’ve been I know where I am tonight
Is paradise
In Cape Town the city by the sea
where you can be as free as you choose to be
and everyone’s as high as the great blue sky
I spoke to an old bergie man on the loose
He said you ain't got nothing you ain't got nothing to lose
This city is the kind of place you’ll find that isn’t bothered by this
Illusion of time
So welcome to the city by the sea,
Where you can be as free as you choose to be
And the ladies are the most, beautiful you’ll ever sea
So welcome to Cape Town, the city by the sea
When you’re lost in the burbs and you don’t know which way to go
Just head for table-mountain she will lead you back home
Black or white, coloured or green, why would it matter to me?
Thanks to ol‘ Madiba for showing us what its means to be free
Scheme | xaxxbxb axx aAx xxxx aAaa xx a a |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 10111 101001101101 01110101101 11101 1000100110 110111101 1101111111111111 0111101111111101 110 011010101 11111111111 011110111 1111111101 11111101111011 1101011111111011 01011 1101010101 11111111111 00101011001101 110111010101 11100101111111 1111010111111 11110111111011 11111101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,151 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 3, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on January 18, 2019
Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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