Analysis of Rot of Capitol Hill
In the exalted halls of our nation's political power,
Inane, sanctimonious fools as asses bray.
No zeal to serve, constituents don't matter.
This insipid quorum, impresses us as neutered, spayed.
Deceive, buy votes, to claw their way into office.
Rejoice descension to this swampland hive.
No fire in their hearts to champion the country,
And lack desire to care for citizens' lives.
Once gotten inside they start amassing riches,
By graft, exploiting common working folk.
No shame, no conscience, unapologetic,
Like spiders spinning, gorging, leaving empty husks.
Raise taxes, waste, presume they're entitled,
As ticks will suck our blood until excised.
Untouched by law, since in the halls of power.
Funding perversions, den of iniquity is what they have in mind.
Most greedily attach to the weapons' industry nipple,
Start cheering globe-wide conflicts, feeding at their master's bloody teat.
Accuse their opposition of heinous crimes and treason,
In this barn, our nation is hysterically marched into the abyss.
Reality control, true modus operandi, the way to hold the reigns... malign, divide and lie.
Depraved ideals, and brazen corruption, reduced this synod to a stye.
Push cretinous laws, insider trade, and greedily skim profits,
For fraction of infraction, serfs assuredly get hog tied.
Political whores gladly yield their country's wealth, such folly.
And fill their pockets to the brim, from enemies out and in.
Corruption is the filth that fills their veins so fully,
Our Constitution is mocked, declared to be a sin.
This power hungry, blood thirsty orthodoxy,
Had ossified in place for numerous years.
Of this malignant death grip on the reigns of our country,
We'll not be freed, till vile leeches are dragged out by their ears.
Scheme | AXAB XXCX XXXX BBAB XBXX XXXB CDCD CECE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 00010111010010010 01010011101 11110100110 111001011101 011111110110 0111111 1100111100010 010101111001 110011101010 111010101 111100010 11010110101 1101011010 1111101011 01111001110 101110100111101 110001101010010 1101101101110101 0110101101010 01110101100101001 1001110010011101010101 010101001001110101 11101010100110 110101010100111 010011011101110 011101011100100 0101011111110 1001011011101 11010110100 1100111001 110101110111010 11111110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,760 |
Words | 317 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Written on July 04, 2022
Submitted by RosenkrantzA on July 04, 2022
Modified by RosenkrantzA on June 16, 2023
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