Analysis of Box For A Lone Wolf
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
In a box
For a lone wolf,
I lay my thoughts
To rest,
Gone
Are the days
Of howling,
As I suppress
My feral nature.
In this small,
Confined space,
I try to make sense
Of it all,
Feeling trapped
And isolated,
As I struggle
To break the screen.
I long for the freedom,
To roam
And explore once more,
But I fear
My untamed identity,
And what it might
Drive me to do.
So I sit here
In my box,
Trapped
In my own mind,
Wondering
If I'll ever
Break free,
And leave
This confinement
To die alone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001 1011 1111 11 1 101 110 1101 11010 011 011 11111 111 101 0100 1110 1101 111010 11 00111 111 110100 0111 1111 1111 011 1 0111 100 1110 11 01 1010 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 505 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 10 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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