Analysis of Ashes In Shame
Bush drivers and plumbers
don’t start the wars
The nurse or school teacher
too busy inured
What’s common among us
with tasks to withstand
The elected entitled
our blood on their hands
Without a real job
and whose terms don’t expire
They poison the well
with aggrandizements dire
To them it’s a game
that they cannot lose
Their voters just pawns
in a continual ruse
But one day the reaper
with sickle in hand
Will come to reclaim
what’s stolen bedamned
And the serfs will rise up
in an infamous rage
The despots left burning
—their ashes in shame
(Radnor Pennsylvania: June, 2023)
Scheme | XXABXCXXXDXDEFXFACEBXXXE X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 110010 1101 011110 11001 010011 11101 0010010 101111 01011 011101 11001 111 11101 11101 11011 0001001 111010 11001 11101 0101 001111 011001 01110 11001 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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