Analysis of Touch My Blood
Touch my blood
to feel a pain
of fighting a centuries'
battle
Feel my hands
to experience the
excruciating resistance
of fearlessness against
inequality
Watch my mouth
as it utters
unequivocal truth
against exploitation and
neoliberalism
Capture my red eyes
as they penetrate
structural injustices
and systemic persecution
Escape
from my milieu
as I repel away
racialism and torture
Keep an
audible silence
as I smoke out
loaded questions
supposing to trap
and incarcerate me
Watch
your behavior and
tone when you speak
before you label me
a barbaric communist
Save
your degrading
working conditions
for your children
in your quest for
self enrichment
Scheme | XXXX XXAXB XXXCX XXXD XXXX XAXEXB XCXBX XXEDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1101 1100100 10 111 101000 0100010 1101 0100 111 1110 01001 01100 1 10111 1110 1000100 0010010 01 1101 110101 100010 11 10010 1111 1010 01011 00101 1 10100 1111 011101 0010100 1 1010 10010 1110 0111 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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