Analysis of Words mean something
Jessie Asquith 1994 (Brisbane)
It wasn't women that made us trade sexuality for morality, love for purity, not our insecurities?
Forcing a fucking mission to restrict our decisions...
Cutting the clitorises of strong African women?
Not our lust that rapes behind lakes of in proper trust.
Not our disregard that carves baby boys to see women as toys.
Not our greed that traffics guaranteed under 18's.
Not our dominance that promises ominous even in religious authority.
Not all men, of course but for a long-time majority...
Does that make you feel better? In your minority.
Thank you so much for not sexually assaulting me.
It is a fucking deformity? Is it me... who cannot see?
Consent at fucking least.
If men can create wars surely a collective society valuing autonomy isn't out of reach?
Teach, I beg you teach...
you may not be a part of the problem but good men fall just as weak when one man speaks an antique language, and another sits silently.
- Their words mean something, it's not always an ill-mannered joke.
Scheme | ABCDEFGGGGGHIIGJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111010010100111001100100 100101010110010 10011110010 11011101110101 1100111101111011 11011101101 11010011001001000100100 11111110110100 1111110010100 11111110000101 1101001001111101 011101 1110111000100100100010010111 11111 1111011010111111111111011000101100 1111011111101 |
Characters | 993 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 781 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 173 |
About this poem
The muse I suppose came from Daniel Sloss’s routine on sexual assault. I also have a minor in sociology and have spent the last four years studying criminology and justice. I just wanted to express, in an aggressive manner accidentally.
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