Analysis of Prison

Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)



How to house the homeless:

In prison cells,
With special locks.

Stacked in boxes
Watched around the clock.

Free to come and go,
As much as they please.

But have a place to rest their head,
Wash and clean their teeth.

And if there's a problem,
Within this cozy nest

Just lock the buggers in their cell,
Until they've had a rest.

The government could build them,
Paid off with their dole.

And when the market's on the up,
They could sell their little hole.

And maybe move to Thailand,
Or an island in the sun

And get that feeling of success,
That would never ever come.


Scheme X XX XX XX XX AB XB XC XC XX XA
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 0101 1101 1010 10101 11101 11111 11011111 10111 011010 011101 11010011 011101 0100111 11111 01010101 1111101 010111 1110001 01110101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 586
Words 135
Sentences 9
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Written on June 28, 2023

Submitted by myway6119 on June 28, 2023

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