Analysis of Children Of The Street
In alleys devoid of light,
huddle children of the street.
For fear arrives late at night,
to feed on youth's conceit.
Delusion fuels more lies,
when surrounded by the dark.
And hate lives within young eyes,
as hunger carves its mark.
Life imposes physical pain,
mixed with frustration and doubt.
For monsters cannot be slain,
at the edge of burnout.
Their fragmented memories,
are erased by reality.
And dressed in torn dungarees,
they adopt brutality.
Each one struggles to survive,
as hypocrisy walks by.
And it's hard to feel alive,
when you can't laugh or even cry.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGCG HIHI |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0100111 1010101 1101111 111101 0101011 1010101 0110111 110111 10101001 1101001 1101011 10111 1100100 101110 01011 1010100 1110101 1010011 0111101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on October 10, 2013
Modified on April 24, 2023
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