Analysis of A Free Man
David Inger 1946 (Nottinham)
They came for him at twilight in the rain
He felt the betrayal but hardly felt the pain
Politics is dirty game.
They put him in the prison for the insane
But he dreams he left the city and the rain
Learned to love the desert plain
And he felt as if he's died and was born again
When he wakes in the morning
His mind needs no warning
That the earth is there as far as the eye can see
And he's never been so free
They tortured him and cursed him
But he wouldn't bend
And he escaped them in the end
Into that distance further than the eye can see
Where at last he was really free
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111001 110010110101 101101 11100101001 11111010001 1110101 011111101101 1110010 111110 101111110111 0110111 1101011 11101 01011001 011101010111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 562 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
A tribute to all those wrongly incarcerated
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