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


Scheme AAX AAAX BBCC XDDCC
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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Submitted by davidinger on June 07, 2021

Modified on April 24, 2023

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David Inger

Retired aid manager. Citizen of Botswana where I have lived for 50 years. more…

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