Analysis of On your knees



See them quiver. Bend on your knees and examine them carefully. For what they're doing, the cowardly nature they possess. Sin corrupted us all. You cannot escape it. Give them a rise and they'll snatch it. As if it's free.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 111011110010110011110010010101101011110011110101111111
Characters 222
Words 40
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 172
Words per line (avg) 40
Letters per stanza (avg) 172
Words per stanza (avg) 40

About this poem

About having control. Even when you don't look it.

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Submitted by Shawnice_Pate on June 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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