Analysis of Life is bitter
Matt Starking 1987 (Africa)
life is bitter
very very bitter
it waves are stronger
turning my life upside down
now I can't carry my crown
I can't smile than frown
I can't go high
nor touch the sky
for I can't fly
my glory taken from me
like the fish taken from the sea
sadness becomes my recipe
if a flower dries
it looses it beauty
I am still locked up
and cannot find the key
my heart is broken
and I need to make it whole
so I said to my soul
if I had the wings of a dove
then I will fly away
till there is a better day
| Scheme | AAABBBCCCDDDEDFDGHHIJJ |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 101010 11110 1011111 1111011 11111 1111 1101 1111 1101011 10110101 10011100 10101 110110 11111 010101 11110 0111111 111111 11101101 111101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 493 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 22 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Written on May 09, 2012
Submitted by NanaKofiNkrumahAcker on June 09, 2022
Modified by NanaKofiNkrumahAcker on July 04, 2022
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