Analysis of Delicate Despot
Backstabbing malcontent
Yammering discontent
Audaciously he’ll cheat
Shows ludicrous conceit
Dastardly chicken-hawk
Deflects by double talk
Grievous in intention
Bullies behind henchmen
Claims to be tough
A compensating puff
Declares the unfairness
At him most enormous
Defensively uncivil
Ego awfully brittle
Hissy fits tyrannic
Erupting volcanic
He’s wholly outrageous
Embracing deeds heinous
Misogyny bilious
Bigotry egregious
His checklist of tactics
Witness dreadful antics
Insists he’s a genius
Scheming always fiendish
Behind un-scalable gates
Guarded he obfuscates
Below the People’s House
Chest bulged like Mighty Mouse
Hear all the fussy rants
Fact and truth he’ll supplant
So reckless and shallow
Beware this sly fellow
Malicious to the brim
Don't feel sorrow for him
Sees no value in you
Hear mendacity spew
Such dishonor he wears
Still claims entitled airs
Autocracy he’ll sling
Like some nightmarish king
| Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGCX FFFFHHFX XFIIFXJJ KKLLMMNN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (23%) |
| Metre | 101 1001 111 110001 100101 011101 100010 100110 1111 01001 010010 111010 0100010 101010 111 10010 110010 010110 1000100 100010 11110 101010 011010 10110 01111 1011 010101 111101 110101 101101 110010 011110 010101 111011 111001 101001 101011 110101 010011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 953 |
| Words | 155 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 40 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Written in wake of the 2020 Lafayette Square outrage. I am a lone poet out in the wilderness, giving a pissed-off middle finger to a very thin-skinned tyrant.
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Written on December 18, 2020
Submitted by karlm.10099 on July 21, 2022
Modified on April 24, 2023
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