Analysis of Property



You made the doing of it your right.
To raise your children as if property.
With a teaching of your lies.
And alibis to create.

You taught them to incite and ignite,
A doing of their ignorance to fight.
What they too kept to believe,
Your way of life had been achieved.

And now you come front and center.
To pretend your children,
Are victims of innocence.
And...
This they are.
Innocent to have their minds,
Destroyed by your lack...
Of having common sense.
In that head of yours.
Vacant of any intelligence to use.

And today that price to pay is by others,
Picked to abuse by your stupidity.
To then accuse and blame your nonsense,
On the very ones who told you repeatedly...
What you choose to allow,
Your children to grow up and follow...
Will eventually come back.
With a dumping their B.S.,
In your own backyard.
Smelling up the entire neighborhood.
And not stop there to go beyond.

Your children you regard,
As your private property.
Has been the cause and the reason,
Their mentalities,
Have been caught trespassing...
Where their ignorance shown,
Is what you deny is not yours...
To identify,
As a doing of yours unknown to have owned!


Scheme ABCX AAXX XDXXXXEFGX XBFBXXECHXX HBDCXXGXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110101111 1111011100 1010111 010101 111101001 0101110011 1111101 11111101 01111010 101110 1101100 0 111 1001111 01111 110101 01111 10110010011 00111111110 1101110100 110101110 101011110100 111101 110111010 10100011 101011 0111 101001010 01111101 110101 1110100 11010010 11 11110 111001 11101111 1010 10101101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,148
Words 247
Sentences 27
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 10, 11, 9
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 178
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Written on July 10, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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