Analysis of Fear
Title: Fear
Author: Ninochka D'Souza
Born without fear
We take our first steps
Falling without fear
A million times we leapt
Climbing without fear
Every staircase we conquered
Running without fear
Through fields of grass we wandered
For fear is learned
When pain is felt
Or a parent teaches us
That all is not well
When safety is taken
We all become afraid
Lost love and grief awaken
Fears like pain from a blade
For some fears are needed
So we trod with care
While others are defeated
When we become self-aware
| Scheme | AX AXAX ABAB XXXX CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101010 1011 111011 10011 010111 10011 1001110 10011 1111110 1111 1111 1010101 11111 110110 110101 1101010 111101 111110 11111 1101010 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 525 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
This poem is about how we learn to fear and how we can overcome some of it.
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