Analysis of To Break Free
How do we continue to feign a countenance for untarnished youth,
the pure or ignorant in mind and soul?
-A spring within the forest.
Do we continue to deny our lust to corrupt it?
-Surrounded by shedding dogwood.
Could it be that we are ashamed of ourselves,
a threat to our repletion?
-Three stepping pools.
That their frank judgement threatens that in which we stake our survival?
-A mist accompanying each.
Are we all orphaned minds stabbed by absent eyes?
-One sweet, one foul, and one beguiling.
Can we fast and step back?
-Down falls a fresh and full blossom.
Without faith, in careless oblivion?
-Landing gracefully within the foul fog.
To make a meal out of battered souls?
-It’s bright hue a flicker in the murk.
Giving up all power to the unknown?
-Ripples motion apart rotting congregants.
Or can we grasp at the remnants of innocence?
-A doe breaks through to drink.
To sanctify a treaty?
-Its twitching nose guiding toward a sweet bath.
To earn acknowledgment?
-Indulging and flooding her mouth.
To put down our wicked sheers?
-A sharp sneeze breaking up the mist.
To wipe off crumbs of generations past?
-Deceptive white dew catching its eye.
To wade through the dark?
-Her curious snout eager to taste.
To build an alter to a newborn set free?
-She eases the bloom toward fresher water.
To watch a world in chaos?
-Her snout entranced and circulating the pool.
To writhe at every fall?
-Her nape loose, she marks her snack.
To fall at every torment?
-It meets her nose and crests atop.
To carve wretch into our wrists?
-A stream appears.
To break in awe as the door opens?
-To love and honor a stranger?
To gasp as they walk through?
-She grants reprieve, to watch light flee her wrath.
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Metre | 111010110100111 0111000101 0101010 110101011011011 0101101 111111011001 011101 1101 11110101011110010 01010001 11110111101 111101010 111011 11010110 0110100100 1010001011 110111101 111010001 1011101001 10100110100 111110101100 011111 1100010 11011001011 110100 01001001 11110101 01110101 111110101 010111011 11101 010011011 11110101011 11001011010 1101010 0101010001 1111001 0111101 1111001 11010101 11101101 0101 110110110 11010010 111111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,663 |
Words | 302 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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