Analysis of Bag Draggers



Bag draggers.
Carrying on their aged to bend shoulders.
Pieces of chips,
From a past had...
Only they with wrinkled lips.
Covering toothless mouths.
Sprewing nothing out,
But how times were to live.
When they had been little kids.

And to this very day,
These same 'kids'...
Who have had children now grown.
Taught to teach them,
How to moan and groan.
With tantrums thrown.
But with updated tactics to use.

Today?
A different strategy,
Has been introduced to implement it.
To prove just who,
Represents those picked to be...
God's favorite chosen one's.
Selected to sit,
In positions of leadership.

And this to prove a power to obtain it.
They changed all rules,
Of how 'their' game is played.
By stacking in bags packed,
With their balls, bats, disguising masks...
Briefcases, paraded imitations to charade.
Copies of hypocrisies.
And how they were created,
To successfully deceive believers.

'We will show you and everyone else,
Just who we are!'

'Hmmm...
Besides being old and spoiled brats.
What else to us,
Is left...
We already know.
Could you possibly expose?'

'Oh yeah?
Here!
How about that?!'

'Like I said...
Most of us,
Already knew...
What you were capable to do.
But...
The few who ran away horrified?
They could not believe,
Sitting around pretending leadership...
Feeding on greed, conflict and division.
Makes a thoughtless selfish mind,
Consciously permit and allow...
Such a frightening sight to their behinds!'

'You?
Are not only envious?
But also jealous of our Status.'

'Keep telling yourself that.
But what you have done to show thus far?
Is SCARY!
And what is even more unbelievable,
Is that you think,
This...
Power,
To achieve it is a craving others wish!
Someone,
Should have taken that butt of yours...
And spanked it into shape.
No matter how long it took to do it.
So sad you old bag draggers are.
Living in the past while sitting on your...'

'Go ahead.
Amuse me with your wholesome,
Yet expected cynical negativity.'

'I was going to say,
While sitting on your aspirations.
Good luck to you and the others too!
Who knows?
Maybe one day God will forgive you!'

'FORGIVE ME?
FOR WHAT, PRAY TELL!'

'Well...
For your power grab.
And that bag dragging done to do.
To not lose an appetite,
Food that ethnic food.
Apparently you like to eat secretly.
And the people you will miss,
Who you claim have come...
To threaten your entitlements!'

'I'll have you know,
That is not on our minds!'

'Yet!
Something tells me,
This too from you...
Will one day be exposed to be revealed!


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Poetic Form
Metre 11 1001111110 1011 1011 1011101 100101 1101 111011 1111101 011101 111 1111011 1111 11101 1101 110101011 01 0100100 110111001 1111 011111 1100101 01011 0010110 01110101011 1111 111111 110011 11110101 10010010101 1011 0110010 1010001010 11110101 1111 1 01101011 1111 11 10101 1110001 11 1 1011 111 111 0101 11010011 1 01110110 11101 100101010 1011100010 1010101 10001001 1010011101 1 1110100 1101011010 110011 111111111 110 0111010100 1111 1 10 10111010101 1 11101111 011011 1101111111 1111111 1000111011 101 0111110 10101000100 111011 11011010 111100101 11 101111011 011 1111 1 11101 01110111 111110 11101 01001111100 0010111 11111 11010100 1111 1111101 1 1011 1111 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,399
Words 442
Sentences 73
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 9, 7, 8, 9, 2, 6, 3, 12, 3, 14, 3, 5, 2, 9, 2, 4
Lines Amount 98
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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