Analysis of Unto Us...
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
Somewhere at some time
They committed themselves to me
And so, I was!
Small, but I WAS!
Tiny, in shape
Lusting to live
I hung in my pulsing cave.
Soon they knew of me
My mother —my father.
I had no say in my being
I lived on trust
And love
Tho' I couldn't think
Each part of me was saying
A silent 'Wait for me
I will bring you love!'
I was taken
Blind, naked, defenseless
By the hand of one
Whose good name
Was graven on a brass plate
in Wimpole Street,
and dropped on the sterile floor
of a foot operated plastic waste
bucket.
There was no Queens Counsel
To take my brief.
The cot I might have warmed
Stood in Harrod's shop window.
When my passing was told
My father smiled.
No grief filled my empty space.
My death was celebrated
With tickets to see Danny la Rue
Who was pretending to be a woman
Like my mother was.
Scheme | ABCCDEFBGHIJKHBJLMLNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1 2 LC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 10100111 0111 1111 1001 1011 1101101 11111 110110 11110110 1111 01 11101 1111110 010111 11111 1110 110010 10111 111 1101011 011 0110101 101100101 10 111110 1111 011111 1010110 111011 1101 1111101 111100 110111011 1101011010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 633 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 163 |
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