Analysis of The streets are reaL
But the streets are real
The streets have it's charm,
Attracting the lost and desperate,
The poor and unoppurtuned
Presenting a sense of brotherhood
and portraying it as the only survival,
Where as loyalty is uncommon
In the streets, there are codes
It's uncivil and unspoken
And betrayal is tortuous death
there are no rules
Only the suited survive
And the weak,
Willing target for easy exploits
But in reality,
Is it worth offering up the conscience
For temporary riches and power?
And a notoriety that may end,
in prison, death or worse.
So look before you jump,
Into the insidious world of streets
Think thrice and more
There is no going back.
On this one way route, towards destruction
Scheme | X XAAXXB XBXXXXX XXXXX XXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 01111 01001010 0101 01001110 001011010010 111001010 001111 10100010 001011001 1111 1001001 001 10101101 1010 1111001010 110010010 000100111 010111 110111 0100100111 1101 111101 1111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 7, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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