Analysis of STRANGE CHANGE
The bitterness is very explicit
Against a man at his very worst
Is doing his very best
To pull his nation away from the pit
Everyone belittles him in their own way
He is a leper in everyone's sight
Thrown out of the house
Chased away with the old woman's stick like a hairless mouse
So l asked what are his crimes
They laughed me to scorn
Saying, you won't understand at all
Because foreigners don't have his time
All l heard is, he promised a change
The people were jubilant in dances and songs
Chanting in deafening choruses down the town
Indeed, there is a change, what then is strange
I was also told of their former
Who was simple, he couldn't kill a house fly
They reviled, chased him out like an evil child
In his simplistic style, he warned them and smiled
The regret is splashing on their faces
Their stomachs bear the brunt of their choice
Their tales are headlined as scary
Even foreigners like me get wary
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110010 010111101 1101101 1111001101 1001010111 110100101 11101 10110110110101 1111111 11111 10110111 011001111 111111001 010010001001 100100100101 0111011111 111011110 11101101011 10111111101 01010111101 0011101110 110101111 1111110 1010011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 922 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on November 17, 2021
Submitted by ebitimi_m on December 07, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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