Analysis of They Denounce...
Scornful disease of mind's among us,
Exposing blackness of their soul.
Infected do their worst to neighbours,
Their aim is sharp at throwing stones.
A crooked finger points from darkness,
An evil smile, cackling laugh,
Denounce game of those complicit,
Not seen since days of Purges past.
And demagogues approve this sickness,
Encourage even more to turn.
For everyone accused, denounced,
Their lives are shattered, jobs are gone.
Our speech's freedom, exchanged ideas,
Among enlightened founders praised,
No longer is a part of fabric,
Of our own "United" States.
Scheme | AXAX AXXX AXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111011 01010111 01011111 11111101 010101110 11011001 01111010 11111101 01001110 01010111 1100101 11110111 1011001010 01010101 110101110 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted by RosenkrantzA on June 13, 2020
Modified by RosenkrantzA on June 13, 2020
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