Analysis of Piteous Proletariat
While aversely obliging
decadent demands
of the reigning, endorsed affluent,
an internal voice howls
interposingly loud
and insists I really shouldn’t:
“pitiful, weary worker,
Coerced, uncaringly ordered
and damned by upper class rules,
will you ever tire
of being a servile martyr...
of acquiescently singing the blues?”
Yet indignantly yielding I remain,
for on the altar of entrenched conformity,
sacrificed is this entrancing sound
of truth and reason by an ear-piercing,
reticent silence en masse.
Scheme | AXBXXB CXXCCX XXXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10001 101001100 101011 11 0011101 1001010 01110 0111011 111010 11001010 111001 1010010101 110101010100 101111 1101011110 1001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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