Analysis of I Was Told
I was told as a young boy
That we were free
But i have only felt encaged
I was told i could be
Anything I wanted to be
But i failed at even being me
I was told that the world
Was such wonderful and beautiful place
But I have seen nothing of what i was told
Were they lies to keep a dreamer dreaming?
Or to keep the blind man from seeing to truth
Does this place really exist?
Someone beyond my sight
To answer these questions would be foolish
For I am as free as i choose to be
I am what I am because of my chooses
And I see only what I choose to see
| Scheme | XABAAABXB XXBB XAXA |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 1101 1111011 111111 1011011 111110101 111101 1110001001 11111011111 0111101010 11101111011 1111001 10111 1101101110 1111111111 11111011110 0111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 534 |
| Words | 119 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on September 03, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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