Analysis of THE CAGED BIRD



THE CAGED BIRD

I know of the tale
of a caged bird

And there, in it's cage,
it sings really beautiful songs

of pain, of sorrow,
of things to come, of freedom

but no one ever said
how it got caged

Did it walked into the cage
or was it in someway, deceived?

Or was it was captured
and stripped of its freedom?

And so the bird,
looking past inhibitions, decided that

since it couldn't use its wings,
it would use its voice

and somehow,
that brought it solace

And this very tale,
got me thinking

That maybe, the most
beautiful of songs

comes from the most
vulnerable of states;

maybe the most
beautiful of stories

are born from the things
that seem to hold us back.


Scheme A BA CD XE XX CX AE AX FX XX BX GD GX GX FX
Poetic Form
Metre 011 11101 1011 01011 11101001 11110 1111110 111101 1111 1110101 1110101 111110 011110 0101 101010101 1110111 11111 01 11110 01101 1110 11001 10011 1101 100011 1001 100110 11101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 676
Words 151
Sentences 3
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

It's about the fact that sometimes we are in our own cage and maybe we don't know how we ended up there, but somehow, it brings us peace.

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Written on March 18, 2023

Submitted by oluwafemi_o on March 24, 2023

Modified on March 26, 2023

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Oluwafemi Onifade is a a cheerful and calm Nigerian writer and poet. He likes to describe himself as "The Poetic Medic". He sees life from the fact that, one should always do the right thing, with the right intent. When he's not writing, he is either playing a board game, sleeping or enjoying some music. more…

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