Analysis of Prisoner Of Life
He was a prisoner for life
cooped in a cell of human bones.
An unseemly brain had plagued him
and love was not to speak its name.
Rarely a smile was ever seen
or a pleasant song ever sung.
His heart beat just to stay alive,
his thoughts not shared with anyone.
Life's woes made not the man this way
nor playact in some masquerade.
He was innately born this way
and died, it's sad to say that way.
At his wake there were no others
only me, his loving brother.
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Metre | 11010011 10011101 10101111 01111111 10011101 10101101 11111101 1111110 11110111 110101 11010111 01111111 11110110 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 356 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on August 19, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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