Analysis of My Teacher
My teacher is an incapacitated soldier
whose bark is worse than its bite
disarmed of all his discipline paraphernalia
my teacher can only bark and go
Students no longer kneel down in class
Doctor says kneeling offsets heart seizure
teachers no longer can send students on errands
'it lowers self-esteem' says one psychological doctor
and 'they aren't in school to be messengers' another punctuated.
male teachers can no longer counsel his female students
"that might break her hymen" said the ego-filled boss
looking discontentedly furious under her framed glasses
My teacher doesn't love what he does
but keeps doing it
living from hand to mouth,
he begs alms to seek his sick salary
my teacher is a pseudo rabid dog whose bark
never terrorizes anyone
but a subject of ridicule and laughter to students
My teacher doesn't understand his rights
he doesn't receive an appointment letter before coming to class
lesson allowances delayed till further notice
or never paid as compensation for her inglorious exit
my teachers are spite by the fruits of their sweats.
My teacher cannot dress as she likes
so she can suit the taste of the school not her students'
but can my teacher cut off the shooting box at her back when married to the board?
or sever her voluptuous bullies
fighting helplessly with the cover to see daybreak
not hidden by the most modest means?
My teacher is a jungle cheetah
residing in the page of a book
its vicious teeth are the imaginative painting of the artist
my teacher is a painted snake
whose fangs are dashes of ink
My teacher is a tool in the hand of exploiters
my teacher fulfills the wishes of high-profile men
while he hid his in a dark haven
where the eyes of any ray has not reached
my teachers never knew they had potentialities
until the employers need them to build his
but they end up jettisoned
like the cargos that offset the sin of Jonah
Upon the slightest err
The reward of my teacher they say is in heaven!
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Metre | 110110010010 1111111 011111000010 110110101 101101101 101101110 101101110110 11010111010010 01100111100010100 1101110101110 111010101011 100100100100110 110101111 11101 101111 1111111100 110101010111 1010010 1001110010110 110100111 11001101010011011 1001000111010 1101101010010010 11011101111 110101111 1111011011010 11110110101101110101 1100010010 101001010111 110101101 110101010 010001101 11011001000101010 11010101 1111011 11010100111 110010101111 111100110 1011101111 110101111 01001011111 1111100 10110101110 010101 0011110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,988 |
Words | 382 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 7, 5, 6, 5, 9, 1 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
About this poem
The persona mocks the abject condition in which his/her teachers work. It is rather ideological in tone and condemns the perpetuated thingification of work force in capitalism.
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