Analysis of A Teacher's Victory
Control! Control! - Our battle cries!
To dull the mind, and blind the eyes.
Distinction, Division, Right and Wrong.
Unification is chaos, join our song!
Free thinkers? What is this, does anarchy rule?
Free thinkers? No thank you, this is a school.
Notice our desks, in neat little rows?
Hear the students reciting facts they don't know.
They copy, repeat, calculate, and recite.
This is the way it's always been done.
Tradition's the substitution for Right.
We stop them, chase them, and pull them back.
You call them questions, we call them attacks.
Their faces are gray, with a thin despair.
Did we forget to teach somewhere?
Scheme | AABB CCXX DXD XXEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010110101 11010101 010010101 00101101101 11011111001 1101111101 1010101101 10100101111 1100110001 11011111 1001011 111110111 1111011101 1101110101 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Observations from my time as student and teacher
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Submitted by jonp.adams on January 03, 2023
Modified by jonp.adams on January 03, 2023
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