Analysis of Starving The Feast



Ok.
Let this be said in a different way.
And in poetic delivery.
With it possibly not to offend anyone.
Taking these comments to make them,
Personally.

Even starving the feast,
Of the ones today...
Feasting to greed selfishly.
To be awakened to feel,
A temporary guilt and remorse.
Will make little difference,
If they contributed to pay...
Thousands of dollars,
From the millions stashed away.
With a doing to donate a percentage of it,
To those in need.
Devastated from homelessness, hunger.
And decades of being treated,
Like less than human beings.

Whatever it is,
Guilt driven feasting greeters....
On their approving selfishness do.
Will not remove the dust collected,
To notice a profit to fill holes...
In pockets of the long forgotten to ignore.

And neither will this wealth collected,
Stolen to hoard secretly to hide.
Diminish the increasing,
Skyrocketing cost of living.
The ones wealthy, rich and pretentiously,
Self indulgent.
Will not pay a cent of taxes they invent.
With loopholes they create for themselves.
To escape from paying a dime.

Although...
Their empathizing to express,
Opportunistic ways...
To address their thoughts and feelings,
Open and publicly to confess them?
Is priceless in their performance of it!

Knowing...
Their feasting to feed selfishly?
Is an act they will continue on to perform.
Religiously.
And...
Poetically speaking,
Of course.


Scheme AABXCB XADDEXAXAFXXGH XEXGXX GXIIDXXXX XXXHCF IDXBXIE
Poetic Form
Metre 11 1111001001 000100100 11100110110 10110111 1000 101001 10101 10111 1101011 01001001 1110100 11010011 10110 1010101 101011001011 1101 100110010 00111010 1111010 1011 110101 110101001 110101010 110010111 010101010101 010111010 101110011 0100010 1001110 0110101 1010 11101110101 11101101 10111001 1 11101 0101 1111010 1001001011 1100101011 10 110111 111110101101 0100 0 010010 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,382
Words 273
Sentences 33
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 14, 6, 9, 6, 7
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 182
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Written on June 10, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 10, 2022

Modified on March 20, 2023

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