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
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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Written on 2014

Submitted by camillerosecastillo on September 21, 2023

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Camille Rose Castillo

Camille Rose Castillo is from the city of Chicago. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years. She currently holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice. . more…

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