Analysis of While the People Sleep
Tyrants live in leisure,
dining on a gourmet treasure.
While The people sleep,
many acts devious. and deceitful occur.
Culminate with a nod and wink,
as they suppress what you think.
they steal the walls and sheets
from you as you sleep.
As they dream on, we are safe,
No one sleeps forever.
One day they will wake
There will be an accounting
for all, they did take.
Will you look at that?
an eyelid quivered.
Scheme | AABACCDBEAFGFHH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 101010 1010110 10101 101100001001 1010101 1101111 110101 11111 1111111 111010 11111 1111010 11111 11111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 319 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
About this poem
another of my political poems.
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