Analysis of Fight the Power



Your freedoms are eroded, iota at a time,
And then before you know it, castrati you've become.
More human rights get pilfered, with every waking day,
Unless you fight the power, to keep their paws away.

While eunuchs sing falsetto, and praise oppressive regimes,
Stupidity pandemic, numbs people to their stings,
Soon you'll possess nothing, yet happy you won't be,
For a planned commune living, works only if you are bee.

And all those lazy leaches, sponging of other's funds,
Ignore widespread corruption, as long as they get crumbs,
Yet all who are not half-wits, know free rides don't exist,
A taxman always cometh, to squeeze life from someone's teats.

Most bureaucrats forgetful, that they are of the people and for,
Us commoners must remind them, the fight they'll have in store,
Our freedoms are God given, not for elites to dole out.
And every right they wish to grab, we must defend, stand stout.

Usurpers are quick to punish, cut dignity and pride.
Creating pain and hardships, with glee they barely hide.
Ramrodding self-serving edicts, down our collective throats,
Their modus operandi, to treat us as herds of goats.

Yet tolerance and patience of people does wear thin,
So we'll show elite bastards, they're goading wolverines.
This nation must stand united, and never bend the knee.
Morality is our weapon, stand tall for all to see.


Scheme XXAA BXCC XXXX DDEE FFGG XBCC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1101010010101 01011111101 11011101100101 0111010111101 111010101001 0100010110111 110110110111 10110101101111 011101011101 0111010111111 1111111111101 01110111111 110010111101001 11001011011101 101011101101111 010011111110111 111110110001 0101010111101 1110101100101 1100101111111 1100010110111 11101101101 11011010010101 010011010111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,356
Words 255
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 177
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Written on December 07, 2021

Submitted by RosenkrantzA on December 07, 2021

Modified by RosenkrantzA on June 16, 2023

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