First off, Street Poetry is a spoken word with poem with one quintain and 2 quatrains. Street Poetry has many couplets and rhyme. An example of this is “This is not rap, this is not hip hop/Just another attempt to make the voices stop.” Street Poetry also has an example of off-rhyme, “Mindless zombies walking around with a limp and a hunch/Saying stuff like you only live once.” The poem also has a paradox in it in the end, “Because death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.” This is a paradox because at first glance the phrase doesn’t make sense at all, but if you actually think about it, it does make sense. This is also a simile because it uses like and it’s comparing two unlike things. It also has many rhymes, for example, “I hope they choke on smoke,” has a rhyme in it.
At the same time, I like this poem quite a bit. I originally found this poem because the writer/performer is Tyler Joseph, who is in Twenty One Pilots. I like this poem …show more content…
I don’t dislike or like Street Poetry more or less after analyzing it. I personally don’t understand how analyzing a poem could affect your opinion on it. One of the main reasons that I like this poem so much is because of the paradox at the end of it because it has so much meaning to me personally. I find it to be a very strong ending for a poem. It’s a really strong ending because not all poets end on something as heavy as “Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.” Also the rhymes make it flow easily, which is pleasing to the ears in my