Analysis of The Anxiety Prison



The prison of anxiety
Does not have bars that you can see,
Nor can you see the walls that keep
The one whose hope is now asleep.

This prison only has parole
That never lasts to be a goal
And pardons do not come to those
Afflicted by its lifetime woes.

The prison clothes look just the same
As if to hide the prison shame
That prisoners will sometimes feel;
A fear of things we must conceal.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01010100 11111111 11110111 01111101 11010101 11011101 01011111 0101111 01011101 11110101 11001011 01111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 393
Words 83
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 26

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Anxiety if forever!

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Written on December 18, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on December 18, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on December 18, 2023

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