Analysis of Anarchism.



'Tis not when I am here,
In these homeless homes,
Where sin and shame and disease
And foul death comes;

'Tis not when heart and brain
Would be still and forget
Men and women and children
Dragged down to the pit:

But when I hear them declaiming
Of "liberty," "order," and "law,"
The husk-hearted gentleman
And the mud-hearted bourgeois,

That a sombre hateful desire
Burns up slow in my breast
To wreck the great guilty temple,
And give us rest!


Scheme XXXX XXAX XXAX XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 111111 01101 1101001 0111 111101 111001 1010010 11101 111111 11001001 0110100 0011001 10110010 111011 11011010 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 437
Words 86
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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