Analysis of Defiant me

Joseph Berolo 1934 (Bogotá)



Knowingly defiant of things gone awry,
I feel the endless pain it causes to rebel
against rebellion, when, not in chivalry,
the struggle is for evil, not to excel.

Deliver me ¡Oh Furies! from inferno unchained,
when  submerged in the judgment of myself,
do to preclude, while sane, the preordained
defying thirst to let it all be a damming hell.

¡Oh, How do I abhor to have and to posses
what is not obtained with grace and care!
¡Oh, How much delight when earned praise
is a given, not a gain for some belated dare!

¡Oh, How do I abhor to be a defiant being!
when in noble cause the trophy is earned,
not a gift of mercy, but the gentle passing
of an air of earned quest to last as well.


Scheme XXXA BXBA XCXC DBDA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 10001011101 110101110110 01010110100 01011101101 01011110101 101001011 110111001 0101111110101 111101110110 111011101 11101111 1010101110101 11110111001010 1010101011 101110101010 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 707
Words 148
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted by aveviajera on December 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joseph Berolo

Joseph Berolo, Colombian born. swiss italian descendant. Poet and writer founder of Naciones Unidas de las Letras, United Nations of the Arts dedicated to promote world peace and harmony through the teaching of poetry and the Fine Arts in the heart and minds of young people,. more…

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